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To: Mr Rogers
Name a strategic goal accomplished by the suicide bombers.

Regime change in Spain and Spain out of Iraq.

18 posted on 02/05/2006 9:43:42 PM PST by ExSoldier (Democracy is 2 wolves and a lamb voting on dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.)
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To: ExSoldier

To quibble, those weren't suicide bombers, just bombers. Spain had serious potential for regime change regardless - the effect had less to do with the bombings than with the government's response to the bombings.

The strategic goal was to weaken international support for US ops in Iraq - and they were already pretty weak.

More to the point, Peters argues the suicide bombers are so effective that a modern military cannot cope with them, and therefor a modern military does not need modern military equipment. Fortunately, I believe his views will be about as strategically effective as the suicide bombers - convincing only those who are already convinced.


27 posted on 02/06/2006 9:51:37 AM PST by Mr Rogers
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