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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (362765)12/13/2007 9:39:28 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (1) of 1575173
 
"The British were shocked that the Argentines sunk two of their ships with Exocets, and that was 25 years ago. "

And in one case it was because the ship's point defenses saw the Exorcet and decided since it was a weapon from a NATO country, it didn't have to do anything.

"If the Iranians decided to sink every helpless tanker in the Gulf instead of the defended US Fleet, what then?"

Precisely. That has been the Iranian's announced strategy since the Revolution. And it is a good one. The problem is that the neocons have a touching faith in what our military can do. Now, true, it could be that the Iranians, in their zeal to collect on the promised virgin could neglect to move their launchers around and fail to take other precautions. But, those things only happen in video games when you set the AI to "easy"...
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