03-07-2003, 01:25 AM
WarBlade,Mar 4 2003, 02:48 AM Wrote:Really?One slight problem with your illustration. You speak of heavy foot traffic passing outside, conjuring an image of happy, placid civilians going about in their daily work, and at the same time the tower falling under the sight of some American guided bomb...
Let's see . . .
In the heart of my city about 5 minutes walk up the hill from What I presume is the densest shopping district in the country sits the TVNZ building. The top of this is packed with various communications transmitters and recievers. By the quotes you presented above this structure would appear to fit the profile of a legitimate military target to an American bomber (assuming of course spyplane-only intelligence as per the Iraq situation). Bearing in mind the heavy foot traffic passing just outside the building, I find myself thinking that a "callous disregard for human life" is exactly what a bombing on it would be. ...
...the funky thing is, we have these things called FLIR. Pave Tack. Thermal imaging. And a Stealth Fighter whose motto is "We own the night". Blast that target in the middle of the day, or in the dead of night, the comm tower is destroyed nonetheless in either case. The only difference then would be when the streets surrounding in this business district will be clogged with civilians.
You illustration ignored the standing tactic of attacking such a target in the dead of night, when no one is around. At least, not as many as your sentimental illustration tries to envision.
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