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...Soviet-era T-52 tanks, their long gun barrels pointed defiantly at the sky. Rumor has it that Iraqi heavy armor is deliberately being moved around in full display to allay public concerns about the army's fighting capabilities. If that is indeed the intention, then the T-52s are being hauled in the wrong direction. The folks who most need that kind of reassurance are the citizens of Basra...
...Central Command chief, Army General Tommy Franks, rejected it because he believes the opposition isn't up to the job. "There are 24 divisions of the Iraqi army," an Army officer told Time. "There's a limit to how much you can do with guys on horseback and B-52s." Not long after Downing's plan fell out of favor, he announced he was leaving the government...
...collapse of the Thai baht (Thailand's economy is about as big as Tennessee's) sparked a financial crisis throughout Asia that, without decisive policy interventions from Washington, would have threatened the global economy and led to the loss of many American jobs. It wasn't B-52s that did the trick then, and if we are to head off a crisis of confidence throughout Latin America--one that could eventually spread to Mexico, which exports its economic woes to the U.S. in the form of migrants--it won't be daisy cutters that...
...hundred days and one war later, we know the answer: B-52s, for starters...
...beginning now not because our propaganda is good. Not because al-Jazeera changed its anti-American tune. Not because a wave of remorse spontaneously erupted in places like Saudi Arabia. But because, with our B-52s, our special forces, our smart bombs, our daisy cutters--our power and our will--we scattered the enemy...