Yesterday, an oped by Max Boot in the LAT urged 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. Then, shoot from both ends towards the middle.
Stinger missiles were the weapon that basically turned around the war in Afghanistan.
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, while carping at us rather than showing any real gratitude.
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 Georgian 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 how can they oppose DEFENSIVE weapons unless they mean to act aggressively and OFFENSIVELY? What an excuse they’ve given the west to install defensive weapons in the Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, et al.
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 drilling for oil 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. Pension funds are investing in oil futures. Everyone is because currently that’s where the profit has been. Pierce that oil bubble and our enemies’ incomes will suffer. Greatly.
