Why do they always think that a few bombs will cow our adversaries?
Shock and Awe --- Fooey!
Bombs seem to be mundane daily events in mideast conflicts.
There's nothing terrifying or intimidating about them to the warring powers.
The shock and awe may apply to ordinary people who get caught in the crossfire but they aren't part of the conflict and so don't count.
American leaders seem to think over and over and over again that our firepower is so terrifying that no one would risk incurring it.
But when it's used it never has any kind of definitive effect except to anger the adversary to attack the US along with their original enemy.
We've got to grow up and get over the idea that bombing other countries is the path to peace and harmony in the world.
If we attack we simply become another target and any humanitarian efforts we imagined will collapse into dust.
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