[geeks] more on dune

[Mike Meredith]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 20:03:33 +0300, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> I'm not surprised you have seen nothing of the paintball guns, it's
> been ignored by the international press. Someday when you wake up and

Well I'm not sure anyone mentioned "paintball guns", but "non-lethal
weapons" was clearly mentioned by both the BBC and the ITN in the UK.
Perhaps the international press isn't quite so pro-arab as you would
believe.

> The reason the mob could do what they did is as the soldiers were
> lowered one by one from a helicopter, they were immediately shot at
> and attacked by a lynch mob. 

Well even I know that lowering soldiers one by one into a possibly
hostile situation is a Really Dumb tactic. I wonder who came up with
_that_ idea.



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Mike Meredith (http://zonky.org/)
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