I loved Hilary's posting. The sad thing is that many people will believe
NATO's excuse. The US has the most sophisitcated surveillance and
intelligence- gathering system ever seen on this planet, with satellites
able to take photographs (or their infra-red and radar equivalents) from
which car registration numbers can be seen, even through thick cloud almost
anywhere in the world. However most people are still under the impression
that the US space program is all about weather-forecasting, 'the final
frontier' and finding extra-terrestrial life.
This doesn't necessarially mean that they can get their missiles to hit the
right targets though. I don't know if anyone remembers back in the
mid-eighties when the US were testing their new generation of Cruise
missiles, they kept getting lost in the Norwegian mountains...
One of the main problems with a lot of these 'accidents' is that the US
planes are simply flying too high to be able to target accurately, so great
is Clinton's fear of losing even one US life (and especially not one of
their $1.4 Billion B-2 'Stealth' Bombers - yes that is the right amount!
Ironically these things are actually designed to be flown low, because they
are supposedly invisible to radar, they just can't target from these
heights).
Mind you, I bet there were several Generals smiling to themselves that they
had managed to hit the Chinese Embassy.
Well, this is what you get with the new 'moral' war.
David.
David Wood
PhD Student ('The Rural Peace Dividend')
Department of Agricultural Economics and Food Marketing
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
Tel: 0191 222 5305
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