(April 19, 2017 at 4:25 pm)AceBoogie Wrote:(April 19, 2017 at 4:01 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The "whole idea" was to hurt ISIS. There may be a side benefit to that of "don't fuck around with us", but we just get more haters in the process, so that's not necessarily a positive.
But if you mean Lord Orange Marmalade is nobody to fuck around with I would suggest a survey of opinions outside the US, where he's viewed as the most dangerous man in the world right now by a fair number of serious observers.
Okay your initial statement seemed to imply that I disagreed that we hurt ISIS, which I don't.
If your argument is that the main point of the bomb was to "hurt ISIS" I have a few questions for you.
Why did we choose to use the largest non nuclear weapon in history to kill under 50 people?
Don't you think there is a more effective way (cost wise and tactically) to target such a small number of soldiers...?
Especially considering that I'm sure we're aware of where many ISIS camps are...
You really don't see how that is just a "look at how big our dick is" move...?
This is chess, not checkers. We didn't pull out a bomb of that cost and size to kill 36 people holed up in a mountain. That's just silly. The 36 deaths, if anything, is the P.S. at the end of the letter.
Yet again, sigh, the point wasn't to kill people, it was to reduce their arms stock. They had millions of dollars worth of munitions in those caves. The collateral damage was a bonus, and I imagine they picked a time when higher ups were on an inspection tour or some such. Cut off the head of a snake and it dies. Cut off the head of a Hydra and Butch Cassidy steps in.
