Stardate 20011004.2155 (On Screen via long range sensors): This article makes an interesting point: maybe there's something to be said for indiscriminate bombing. There has seemed to have been a cognitive disconnect in the actions of the Taliban and other groups sympathetic to them; perhaps they really do believe that we're gutless and unwilling to strike, and if so then the mere fact that bombs are falling may change their world-view, even if the bombs don't hit anything important. He points out that the attacks on Libya and Sudan, while perhaps misdirected, also had the effect of convincing those two countries that they really didn't want to be in the terrorist business after all. The US government is considering
attacking the Taliban's anti-aircraft weaponry so as to remove any potential threat to cargo planes carrying food to Afghani refugees; that seems like a reasonable excuse.
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