Tuesday, January 7, 2020

B-52's? So?

The Daily Wire reported yesterday that President Trump and the Pentagon are moving six B-52 bombers to Diego Garcia in an attempt to communicate to Iran that they need to play nice for once since they over threw the Shah.
As today's events show, that was a waste of time. While the B-52 has proven, over it's nearly 70 year service span that it is a formidable foe, it is not the weapon for this occasion.
In our last attempt to get the attention of Saddam Insane, we dispatched B-2's from Missouri, and stealth Fighters to put on a show in Baghdad that even CNN was shocked by. Sad to say, those kinds of displays of power are wasted on people who believe the moon god spoke to a pedophile thug in the deserts of Arabia, conveying a message that is so convoluted and contradictory as to be laughable.
These people actually believe the satanic verses are a Revelation of GOD and call him a prophet, as if he were the same as Isaiah or Daniel. Sorry, no prophesy in the satanic verses.
They believe it though because they get promised 72 virgins and 24 supply young boys when they die.
If we want to grab their attention, we need to start by eliminating their military power. Target all of their 500 or so military aircraft. blow them to bits.
Next we need to reduce all their nuclear sites to rubble. Make that sand, leave no stone unsmashed. Set their atomic program back eighty years, back to the time before the atom was split.
Then target their boats. With nearly 400 watercraft, their numbers rival our own. Of course, their biggest is an aging frigate, and ours are nuclear powered carriers. We just need to leave them a glass bottomed rowboat so Salami can review the fleet.
The B-52's would send a message if those people used their brains in the same way we do. They don't, sad to say. War with Iran may be inevitable. If that is the case, we need to set simple goals, reduce their ability to make anything, then pack up, go home, and target anything that leaves the country for a decade.
We could, we won't. We will pay the price for not stopping them now.
Today they are firing missiles into Iraq,aimed at our bases. what ever we do will have the donks up in arms. This threatens to cut into Kerry's conduit of money and possibly that of a few other bottom dwellers.
As for the B-52's. we can reduce Iran to rubble with so many different kinds of weapons which would place zero Americans in the line of fire and reduce Iran below third world status that we don't need to put them in the air.
For that matter, we could send in teams of CIA agents and make the chaos of the Iraq insurgency come home to roost. Make Tehran an unconventional war zone for a few years.

2 comments:

Dan said...

We don't need to send B-52's INTO Iranian air space and doing so would not be a good idea. They are large slow moving targets and we'd almost certainly lose some...and we don't have but about 80 or so left in service. What the B-52 CAN
do very very well is stand off outside of their air defenses and chuck cruise missiles at targets. A B-52 can carry literally DOZENS of cruise missiles. So
putting them near Iran is NOT just a statement. It is a VERY REAL and VERY LEGITIMATE threat.

JeremyR said...

I agree about the B-52's abilities. I t is a rock solid mainframe. It is amazing that nearly 70 years on, it is still a front line force to be reconed with and has not been phased out. Prior to it's arrival,we'd had the B-36, B-50 and B-29. None of them served very long. The 50's served six years, the 36's about eight and the 29's about four. Who would have expected that the B-52 would end up in service possibly to the century mark? During it's life span we have seen a number of bomber come and go from the B-47 to the F-117.
Frankly, I am amazed that Iran moved to deescalate this mess. Apparently they have a scattering more brain cells than the average jihadist.