🚀 go-pugleaf

I eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu writes:
#jake@bony1.bony.com (Jake Livni) writes:
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##   Which is why low-flying, precision bombing as perfected by the Israeli
##   AF would have been effective here.
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#Remind me, is this the same Israeli AF that executed the infamous
#attack against the slow-moving, non-stealthy, and ill-defended USS
#Liberty?  A ship the Israelis couldn't identify after hours of recon,
#and didn't after three attack waves?  Or so goes the official story...
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#Seems to me that either the Israelis aren't so hot at identifying and
#killing targets after all, or that the Liberty story as told in public
#is wrong.  Take your choice.

Mistakes happen in war, even to the best and most expereinced air-forces.
On the six-day war, Israeli jets starfed an Israeli armored column. In
the 1982 war in Lebanon, 25 Israeli soldiers were killed within a few
minutes when Israeli Phantom jets mistakengly took them to be Syrian
troops.

I don't know what to make of your post. I guess we are allowed to assume
now that the botched attempt at releasing the US hostages at Teheran
reflects on the average capability of the US army, and that the Mai-Lai
massacare reflects on the average moral of US soldiers. I think neither
of the above is true, but following your theory that a function can be
fully reconstructed from its minimas, well... take your choice.

-Danny Keren.