Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Journalists Are Idiots: Stories from the MSM.

From the Telegraph:
An AC-130 Spectre gunship carried out the strike. This large aircraft, modelled on the Hercules cargo plane, is stuffed with cannon and machine-guns. The AC-130 is designed to saturate a large area with gunfire, hitting every square yard in the target zone with multiple rounds.

So this was the very opposite of a surgical strike. Anyone in the path of the gunship, which departed from the US military base at Camp Lemonier in Djibouti, would have been killed.
Heh, that is some aircraft. Fill it with water and it could extinguish forest fires covering whole mountains chains. Fill it with ammo and it is a veritable showerhead of death cleansing the Somalian plains. More at EU Referendum.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

And of course the dramatic photo they used shows it dropping flares over a wide area. These are designed to confuse enemy antiaircraft missiles - not offensive armament at all. But it sure fits their hackneyed anti-American text.

Anonymous said...

That is very true Peter, and explains much.

Might I pick your brain a bit? In reading the blogs, you can see the cumulative effect here in the US of so many years of anti-American sentiment among the Europeans. Not that criticism can't be delivered, etc., but that it has become so reflexive in Europe that many Americans now simply tune it out and assume the worst. And that Europeans don't ponder the long-term consequences of our tuning it out.

Anonymous said...

Very well said.

Unknown said...

Peter:

Well I have gotten to the place where I don't much give a rat's ass anymore myself.

Let Brazil or Venezuala take care of the next tsunami.

Luther said...

"they hate you for being powerful and despise you for being vulnerable."

PeterUK, once again, gets to the gritty.

I do not disagree, but the one part missing from that equation is...they hate us because they fear us.

Are we capable of engendering that emotion anymore, or, are we lost?

richard mcenroe said...

Terrye-- Sheeit, Venezuela just disbanded its freaking coast guard, never mind tsunamis...

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