[Eagles6]

"Taliban militants have used a heat-seeking surface-to-air missile to attack a Western aircraft over Afghanistan for the first time."

The western msm immediately splooged in their pants and will raise prices, effective Monday, to pay for new trousers.

[Horatio Gates]

The crew reported that a missile system locked on to their aircraft and that a missile was fired.

That would be radar guided if they knew they were locked on to

[maine-iac7]

It is time to take the gloves off - Our troops are hamstrung with that can't-shoot-until-shot-at garbage, ala 'nam. I have been told by those that are there that if they weren't held back, they could mop up the trouble right quick.

I would like to know who's responsible for this as well as the 'catch and release' - catch 'em, fingerprint and eye scan, take down a few stats and the have to LET THEM GO! - and they come back shooting at you tomorrow. Insanity.

[mdittmar]

That taliban is one lame terrorist group.

They're even propped up by the old media,yet they continue to die.

What a bunch of losers.

[blam]

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

Guerilla tactics are fungible.

The US provided large numbers of Stingers to help the Muslim guerilla forces bring down Soviet Red Army aircraft after the USSR invaded Afghanistan in 1980. Now “somebody” is providing similar weaponry to allow the Taliban and like-minded groups to take out US and allied aircraft.

Welcome to asymmetric 21st century warfare, where huge, expensive military dinosaurs designed for 20th century state-to-state wars, are trumped by inexpensive 21st technology available to ‘irregular’ forces.

Ron Paul’s suggestion that we revive the ‘letters of marque and reprisal’
http://www.house.gov/paul/press/press2001/pr101101.htm
from our 18th century constitution sound better and better every day.

http://www.d-n-i.net/creveld/the_fate_of_the_state.htm
http://www.d-n-i.net/dni_reviews/fabius_changing_face_war.htm
http://www.d-n-i.net/

Introduction

Machines don’t fight wars. People do, and they use their minds. - Col John R. Boyd

Military action is important to the nation—it is the ground of death and life, the path of survival and destruction, so it is imperative to examine it. - Sun Tzu, The Art of War