And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Moral: things can and will spiral out of the control of the morons in charge.
The Russians will provide targeting information to Syrian cruise missile batteries (72 Russian missiles on Syrian soil, owned by Syria) and they will use their navy and spy ships to do it. Which means that we can launch from about 350 miles out. The Tomahawk missiles that the US Navy's destroyers carry can stand off 1,500 miles, so in a way, that threat is a red herring.
What the Russians can do is to use their ships as picket craft to detect and provide early warning of incoming US missiles.
The real question is what SHOULD we do? And the answer is, nothing.
I don't see it as a spiral out of control.
ReplyDeleteThe Russians will provide targeting information to Syrian cruise missile batteries (72 Russian missiles on Syrian soil, owned by Syria) and they will use their navy and spy ships to do it. Which means that we can launch from about 350 miles out. The Tomahawk missiles that the US Navy's destroyers carry can stand off 1,500 miles, so in a way, that threat is a red herring.
What the Russians can do is to use their ships as picket craft to detect and provide early warning of incoming US missiles.
The real question is what SHOULD we do? And the answer is, nothing.