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To: TimF who wrote (150377)	8/26/2002 10:43:38 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1586288

Ted with the precision the bombs where dropped and the fact that they where dropped on military targets almost exclusively I don't think it is accurate to say we engaged in wholesale bombing in Afghanistan. Tim, when I said "wholesale bombing" I meant bombing done generally throughout a country; however, the word also means "without discrimination" or "without precision".....so you're right, wholesale isn't the right word to use to describe what I mean but neither is carpet bombing. What I meant was I don't think the general bombing of a country is the best way to net yourself a terrorist even when those bombs are precision targeted and hitting military targets. As for carpet bombing, no one can carpet bomb a country the size of Afghanistan. We could carpet bomb Kabul, or maybe even all the cities if we wanted to, but such carpet bombing or even just plain old regular "wholesale bombing" would probably have killed tens or even hundreds of thousands of civilians. I understand that......I mentioned it because I consider it the opposite of wholesale bombing.