Libya and the cry over the cost for the U.S.
Latest talk on the Libya conflict is that the rebels are still plugging along and defending much of what they have gained from the pro-Gadhafi forces. A Karin Laub article written for the Associated Press titled Gadhafi's daughter sends defiant message reports “The daughter, Aisha, pumped her right fist as she led the audience in late-night chants from the second-floor balcony of the badly damaged Bab Aziziyah compound, targeted by U.S. warplanes in 1986.” "Let me go back to the past when I was a child, when I was nine years old, in this house," she said. "A rain of missiles and bombs. They tried to kill me. They killed dozens of children in Libya." "Now, after 25 years, the same missiles, the same bombs, rain on our children's heads," she said. "We are a people that cannot be defeated," she added.” This was their definition of a defiant message, but to me what it was saying is my brothers are looking to sacrifice my father so in their place I stand.
Another development which has been barely covered is soon, the rebels will have those sorely needed larger weapons to actually take the battle to Gadhafi forces. They have quietly been taught how to operate these tanks and rocket launchers as well as instituted a new radio command section which will keep them somewhat coordinated unlike before. These items will soon be on the front line and air strikes will soon be less and less necessary. Look for this development to be coming real soon and it will be nice to hear what those experts who used the word “stalemate” find another. This brings me to my final point about this and all wars both past and future.
I hear so many speak about the cost and I have one simple question. If these rockets cost so much, get up off your butts and find rockets that work just as well at a cheaper price. To just sit back and accept a million dollar cost to each rocket launched makes no sense if you are so concerned with cost. If you look at your cell phone bill and it seems to keep getting more and more expense, don’t you search now for a company which will offer you the same services at a cheaper price? Instead of paying such an amount for a rocket invest that money into the operators of these weapons, their family and their healthcare. Once a rocket is shot, it can not be recycled and used again but the operator can always be re-trained to operate a different launcher. Invest in the most valuable of the military industrial complex which is the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, their families and their health.
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