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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-16-05 09:26 AM
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You're right, definitely not surgical...
...on the other hand, if the headline was "unknown foreign airplane fires missile into deserted area in southern New Mexico" and we were in some kind of hot political dispute with Mexico at the time (granted not likely since Mexico is our buttpuppet), would we hesitate to blame the Mexicans?

The idea is not to actually blow up the nuke site, since it would then be OBVIOUS we were attacking them, but to provoke them into attacking US.

As a provocation, this is fairly wimpy.

OTOH, next time we miss we might well kill some folks. That would not be so wimpy a provocation, and would get the Iranians irate.

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