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2. A remarkable article about bombing people to smithereens:
DEATH from ABOVE
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG12Ak01.html
>From Dresden and Tokyo to Hanoi and now Iraq's Baquba
and Afghanistan's tribal villages, the US military has been
"HOOKED ON AIRPOWER".
The addiction will only grow stronger as US ground
troops gradually withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan, increasingly
leaving civilians, not Afghan resistance fighters, to continue to
take the heat.- by Tom Engelhardt (Jul 11, '07)
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A FALLACY that BOMBS - literally
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IG12Ak06.html:
US and Israeli reliance on air power to fight urban guerilla warfare
has unintended consequences. Dead civilians, decimated homes, schools
and hospitals strengthen and unify opponents and portend an ominous
future for US geopolitical goals. By Khody Akhavi (Jul 11, '07)