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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule
The hypocrisy of our political process is amazing. Or better said the hoops people will jump through to justify the actions of their party leaders is amazing. Here we are firing over 100 cruise missiles (at a cost probably in the hundreds of millions of dollars) at another arab country. And now even the Arab league which supported a no fly zone is saying that the airstrikes are overly aggressive.
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CRed, personally I worry about those costs. As you indicated, those Tomahawks are not cheap.
However, if the international community is going to do this, it ought to be done right. Aircraft, anti-aircraft sites, radar sites, and other heavy hardware would have to be taken out to support a no-fly zone. It is difficult for me, and the Arab League for that matter, to adjudge exactly how much strike is needed to do this and how much might be superfluous.
What really concerns me are the comments that what has happened represents only the first wave of attacks. I wonder what is yet to happen.