collateral damage

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Since even the US military must realize that bombing the Taliban from
>the tenth century back to the ninth century is silly, you have to
>wonder what is the purpose of the bombing.
>
>I would submit, the purpose of the bombing campaign is to destroy
>civilian targets such as food supplies, housing, communications and
>transport and that any collateral damage of explicit military targets
>is considered an accidental bonus. I would also suggest one purpose of
>the so-called humanitarian aid packages was to accustom civilians and
>the military to consider yellow packages harmless---a fatal mistake
>since cluster bombs are yellow. The best of these psychological
>warfare tactics (in Vietnam) used little oddly shaped wedges and stars
>to attract the curious, principally children who picked them up and blew
>off there hands and faces. The military objective in this example is
>to jam up the primitive medical system with injured children and
>inhibit its treatment of military personnel.
>
>Chuck Grimes

Furthermore, such dangerous civilian targets as Red-Cross warehouses 
are to be bombed at least twice, so everyone will get the point.
-- 
Yoshie

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