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French media is reporting that Benghazi rebels admit they shot down their own plane today.
sigh She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
That's why these things can't be ad-hoc'ed. Command and Control needs to tight when you've got people armed to the teeth, tanked-up on adrenaline, making almost instant life and death decisions. Pilots who linger over a target area tend to be dead pilots. They need to get in & out as quickly as possible; thus, they have to rely on their controllers for "situational awareness" -- as it's known. She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
innumerable replays of kaddaffi's demented railings are really getting old.
interesting how they couldn't use drones, since they're so happy to drop them on afpak.
even reagan's botched attempts on kaddaffi's family looks more humanitarian than the possible tarpit-occupation-in-the-making we're watching now. 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
surprised areva hadn't built any there yet, lol.
Nuke plants were supposedly sold to Libya (and trumpeted), but Gaddafi never signed the contracts.
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