I'd go even farther and say that we cannot continue to send million dollar machines and precious American lives down roads if easily planted 10 dollar explosives can blow them up on a regular basis.
Wow!.. I guess we should disband the army because our soldiers, who are trained and paid at great cost, can easily be killed by one bullet worth less than .50 a piece.
Hell.. our multi-billion dollar Aircraft Carriers can be sunk by one 2 million dollar torpedo (probably cost is far less for a Russian or Chinese torpedo).
One speedboat in Yemen, filled with maybe a few thousand dollars worth of explosives critically damaged, and almost sunk, the USS Cole.
Then we can stop building skyscrapers because each of the multi-billion dollar WTC buildings was brought down by a jet liners worth maybe $150 million each.
When a nation goes to war, the cost is not counted in dollars, but in the blood of our citizens, both current and in the future. What will it cost if we don't neutralize and/or defeat, radical Islamic militants willing to die in order to destroy our society?
What will it cost, should they finally consumate their stated plans to using nuclear, biological, and/or chemical weapons against the US mainland?
In sum, the way you get rid of those $10 IEDs is to eliminate the enemy chain of command and financial and logistic network.
That's what we were having great success in doing in Iraq in 2006-2008.
Hawk |
