Should we just nuke em?

 

 

"Their fate is sealed. They are all dead men walking..."

You have to admit one thing. It is pretty bad when the Holy Father calls for your destruction. And when the President of the United States refers to your group as a "cancer". Yesterday's news of the beheading of the  American journalist James Foley did something to this country I have not seen since 9/11 - it unified us in anger and resolve. ISIS has gone from (as the President called them) "JV" status to # 1 on our most wanted list. Knowing it or not, they have sealed their fate, and have no hope of redemption.

I am no different than any other American. I seethed with anger when I saw what they had done. I thought my anger towards this group had already reached a fever pitch when I have seen how they brutalize innocent women and children. After yesterday, my anger went up one notch higher. My first impulse was like many others - nuke the bastards!

However, let us face reality. Nukes are messy. The fallout could affect people we do not want to harm. There are better, cleaner solutions. Solutions we have in our inventory.

During the Gulf War we were introduced to the MOAB - a weapon with literally means the Mother Of All Bombs. The MOAB is huge - so large it must be dropped by a C-130. It needs to be pushed out of the plane like a huge cargo drop. Only this is a cargo drop you don't want to be on the receiving end of.

The MOAB is a FAE bomb. FAE stands for Fuel Air Explosive. It spreads large quantities of misted high explosive fuel in the air and then ignites it. Done correctly, a MOAB will set off the largest explosion known outside of a nuclear blast. How much damage can it do? According to globalsecurity.com it can do the following within the detonation radius:

• Up to 1,000 yards - obliterates everything
• Up to 1 mile - knocks everything over except heavy buildings
• Up to 1.7 miles - shock wave kills people, damages buildings and equipment
• Up to 2 miles - causes deafness
• Up to 30 miles - the 10,000 mushroom cloud is visible

I believe a nice combination of a few well placed MOABs, followed up by some saturation or carpet bombing with B-1s, B-2s and B-52s, mixed in with some smart bombing and cruise missiles, and then followed up with some close in visits from our A-10s Warthogs as well as one or two of our Puff the Magic Dragons (AC-47D "Spooky"), could fix this problem for once and for all. How long would it take? As long as it needs to.

The big take away from the 9/11 Report was this - our naivety led to the 9/11 disaster. Since we were not at war with them, we ignored them. We thought of Al Qaeda as a law enforcement problem. However, they were at war with us. ISIS also believes they are at war with us. It is time to take the gloves off and show this murderous group of thugs what the sleeping giant can do. When we need to, we can kick and punch hard - very, very hard.

So get ready boys. You wanted to see if we were awake, and trust me, we are. After 9/11, we learned a thing or two. Now it is your turn to learn a thing or two. You will learn a lesson  we will gladly teach you. You won't remember it long however, since you will all be dead.