Bomb Envy
The U.S. has a 14-ton super bomb more destructive than the vacuum bomb just tested by Russia, a U.S. general said Wednesday.
The statement was made by retired Lt. General McInerney, chairman of the Iran Policy Committee, and former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force.
McInerney said the U.S. has "a new massive ordnance penetrator that's 30,000 pounds, that really penetrates ... Ahmadinejad has nothing in Iran that we can't penetrate."
He also said the new Russian bomb was not a "penetrator."
On the bright side, at least this arms race isn't with nukes. Of course, threatening Iran seems to be his whole point, and the stepped up rhetoric and possible war preparations against that nation deserve their own post, but the following deserves some highlighting:
"Forty-eight hours duration, hitting 2500 aimed points to take out their [Iranian] nuclear facilities, their air defense facilities, their air force, their navy, their Shahab-3 retaliatory missiles, and finally their command and control. And then let the Iranian people take their country back," the general said describing the campaign, adding it would be "easy."
Any time your plan depends on the people you're attacking to rise up and support you, you're probably screwed. Easy is the one thing a campaign against Iran won't be.
