Yesterday, an oped by Max Boot in the LAT suggested supplying the Georgians with stinger missiles to bring down aircraft and with javelin missiles to disable all those armored personnel carriers rolling into Georgia. Disable the ones in front and the ones in back and you get chaos and gridlock.
Stinger missiles were the weapon that basically turned around the war in Afghanistan.
Also, frustrated with the paucity of news on Fox and CNN, I turned to C-Span this morning and heard Ralph Peters telling an AEI seminar that it seems Putin has lost 10-12 planes so far and is very pissed off about it. (We lost 0% planes statistically in the 12 years of our overflights over Iraq). Russian pilots don’t get much flight time and hence are missing their targets. One Georgian town turned off its lights at night and the Russian bombs landed in the sea. If the Russian soldiers don’t have night vision goggles, the night will belong to Georgians special forces.
I think we have to seek NATO membership for all the Eastern European nations immediately and provide them with defensive weapons which the Russians will howl about, but why would they oppose defensive weapons unless they mean to act aggressively? What an excuse they’ve given the west to install defensive weapons in the Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, et al.
The weapons genius of CHARLIE WILSON’S WAR Mike Vickers is now an Undersecretary of Defense in the Pentagon, and I hope he will be put in charge of arming our New Europe allies, who are real allies, unlike Old Europe which has been content to have us defend them. By the way, do they pay us anything for being their defenders? Gratitude and appreciation don’t seem to be forthcoming.
Thank God for C-Span. This morning I saw the Republican news conference. These guys are energized and are hearing from men who work with their hands in the middle of the country which produces the goods the two effete coasts take for granted. They get it about our need for oil and energy independence and they want the high-paying jobs these industries could provide. Lifelong Democrats among them will probably be voting Republican.
We need an emergency crash program seeking energy independence so as to starve Putin, Chavez and Adminjihad of oil money they’re putting to dangerous purposes. If we start off our shores and in Alaska and building refineries (for the first time in 30 years) the price of oil which has been kept high by speculators in oil FUTURES will fall like a stone.
There’s been a breakthrough on solar by MIT, I thik, which I just heard about this morning. Companies will be formed to make commercial use of this.
I support investing heavily in everything but wind power ( Nancy Pelosi has heavily invested in T. Boone Pickens’ company. Read Michelle Malkin’s column in Townhall today). The fragile ceramic propellers, manufactured in India, keep breaking apart. The Colorado wind farm the Dems invested in has yet to provide any energy and will have to be written off as a tax loss.
