{"id":858,"date":"2009-12-09T18:04:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=858"},"modified":"2009-12-09T18:21:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:21:23","slug":"afghanistan-where-is-the-fing-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan &#8211; Where is the F***ing Air?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is bull shit. Americans and coalition forces are dying because McChrystal and Obama want to win a PR war. If a Taliban sniper takes up a position in your mud hut and you don&#8217;t run out the back and hide in a ditch, you are the enemy and your mud hut is enemy infrastructure.<br \/>\nSolution? Apply liberal amounts of US air power and adios sniper, adios mud hut, adios goat-herding Taliban sympathizers. The Marines shoot everyone that stumbles out of the smoke with a weapon and voila. Otherwise bring everyone home right now! Then later if we need to we can follow the corporal Hicks protocol from <em>Aliens<\/em>, &#8221; dust off and nuke the site from orbit, it&#8217;s the only way to be sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2009\/12\/ff_end_air_war\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;with a single stroke, McChrystal took the US\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biggest technological advantage off the table. The military would have to make do without one of its most potent weapons.<br \/>\nIt hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been easy. While accidental <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2009\/aug\/28\/world\/fg-afghan-civilians28\">civilian deaths dropped by 87 percent<\/a> in the eight weeks following the order, American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2009-10-27-aghanistan-deaths-troops_N.htm\">fatalities have more than doubled<\/a> from 2008 levels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;While the debate rages in Washington, the Marines on the ground are mostly on their own. Even with Paz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s squad being attacked from three sides, a bombing run is not automatic. The Marines not only have to prove that civilians won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be hurt, they also must guarantee that the bombs won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t so much as scratch civilian homes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2009\/12\/ff_end_air_war\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is bull shit. Americans and coalition forces are dying because McChrystal and Obama want to win a PR war. If a Taliban sniper takes up a position in your mud hut and you don&#8217;t run out the back and hide in a ditch, you are the enemy and your mud hut is enemy infrastructure. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":863,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}