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In article <dusek.713136868@shale> dusek@rtsg.mot.com (James Dusek) writes:

>	The Patriots might have been over rated, but the did intercept
>attacks. If we didn't send them we would still be hearing if from
>you.

Actually, recent information indicates that the Patriots may not have 
intercepted a single Scud.  Talk about fog of war!

>	Really? The IDF would have wasted more time than the U.S. hunting
>scuds. The IDF didn't have awacs and other bonuses that the U.S, had in
>that area.

Firstly, the IDF has something simlilar the E2-C (Hawkye?).  Secondly,
had the Bush administration not been terrified of the Arab states that
it was defending, it might have allowed Israel to join in Desert Storm,
in which case the same AWACS that co-ordinated Saudi fighters with 
Americans could've done the same with Israeli fighters.  The decision
to exclude Israel was a political decision, not a military decision.

>When a scud was launched its launcher died. Unless the IDF
>leveled EVERY standing structure in Westren Iraq there is no way they could
>have been more effective than the U.S.

They would've flown lower and recognized the decoys.  The Americans blew
up a lot of decoys.  Israeli air tactics, as demonstrated in the attack 
on the Osirak nuclear reactor, are characterized by precision, not 
by the sledgehammer approaches regularly utilized by Americans.  While
sledgehammers make lots of sparks fly and sure do smash things up,
they often miss the point.



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