El Borak's Myopia

El Borak's Myopia

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Better than mustard gas I guess

Don't overcook the Moonbats

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before being used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.

The object is basically public relations. Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions from others about possible safety considerations, said Secretary Michael Wynne.

"If we're not willing to use it here against our fellow citizens, then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation," said Wynne. "(Because) if I hit somebody with a nonlethal weapon and they claim that it injured them in a way that was not intended, I think that I would be vilified in the world press."

So it's better to condition the US military to blast American citizens than it is to get criticized by Le Monde? I think he should be vilified in the world press anyway - or at least subjected to scorn, mockery, and derision - because a person who is more concerned about his worldwide renown than he is about testing weapons on the citizens of his own country should not be allowed near a pair of scissors, much less high-technology crowd control devices. And armed forces that test their weapons on domestic crowds is the province of totalitarianism. Seems to me that there's some dictator on trial for the same thing right now.

I wonder if he would say of mustard gas, depleted-uranium shells, and pinpoint nukes that if we are not willing to use them against "our fellow citizens" that we should not use them in a wartime situation. After all, if someone got hurt, we wouldn't want the French to make fun of us.

Or did I miss the memo where reputation is what the armed forces are primarily charged with protecting?

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