Before every Chomsky-worshipping pseudo-intellectual in the world with an IQ of 298 starts screaming in anguish over the 25 American military casualties (I dare you to bring me a UC Berkeley poly-sci professor that hasnÕt told his class: ÒAfghanistan is George BushÕs Vietnam!Ó) or the alleged ÒhundredsÓ of Afghan civilians killed by the cowboy tactics of the US Military (Type in ÒTaliban casualtiesÓ in any Internet search engine and youÕll see that most of the stories are about how the US killed ÒhundredsÓ of Afghan civilians living next to Taliban ammo depots and that the US should not ÒtargetÓ civilians) since the War On Terror began in October 2001, let me give you a couple of things to consider:
1) The allied coalition led by the United States (but mostly the United States) has all but crushed the Taliban forces. Depending on if you believe the numbers from the Northern Alliance, the coalition has destroyed most of the Taliban military ø their losses reach into the high-hundreds/low-thousands. If youÕre keeping score that means our military killed fewer Taliban military bad guys than Bin LadenÕs evil terrorist attack on 9/11 killed innocent multiracial/multinational good guys.
2) In an effort to skew those numbers over in the good guysÕ favor, the United States has been given the go-ahead to mount a new laser cannon on AC-130 Spectre
gunships, the same kind of planes flying missions over Afghanistan right now.
The US Military has been working on getting lasers in their arsenal for about fifteen years, but thereÕs always been the problem of size. Unlike the handheld phaser guns seen in Star Trek, a laser gun in the real world is about the size of a dump truck. Unless youÕre a very big boy, most men on the front lines would be unable to hoist a laser gun that size around the battlefield.
Until laser guns can be miniaturized down to handheld size, they are mounted as cannons on warships or large planes. The Boeing Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) cannon has been in testing at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico for the past year. The ATL would be used for both lethal and non-lethal missions. Just as low flying AC-130 gunships ripped Taliban soldiers and military installations to shreds over the past four months with machine guns, a laser-enabled AC-130 would be able to fry human enemies and liquefy metal targets like communications antennae with pinpoint accuracy from nearly ten miles away. The Bush AdministrationÕs proposed defense budget increases funding for the ATL by four times and hopes to have a laser-enabled AC-130, called the AC-X or ÒSon of SpectreÓ in the skies by 2004.
Lasers require a lot of energy to be effective, so many might ask: ÒIs the ATL nuclear powered?Ó Any chance the leftist watermelons (you know the type: Green on the outside and Red on the inside) have of demonizing the ATL as ecologically dangerous are slim. The ATL is fueled by common household chemicals like hydrogen peroxide, iodine and water. Are these environmentalists going to be anti-iodine (an infection fighter used in many developing nations in Africa and South America) and hydrogen peroxide (most commonly used to dye hippie college studentsÕ hair)? ItÕs doubtful, but they could take their case to the elite media to protest our unfair advantage of using advanced weapons against an opponent who is right at the Òstone tools and loinclothÓ stage of technological achievement.
The radical extremists in the Middle East have long claimed that they will triumph against the immoral western pagans because they have God on their side. I ask those people to picture this typical scene playing out in some dusty terrorist-friendly land like Somalia, Yemen, Iran, Palestine or Iraq:
A radical mullah preaches violence against the western democracies to a crowd of thousands in a busy downtown plaza. The crowd chants and cheers as the mullah describes the atrocities committed by the bloodthirsty western pagans against the pious people of God. The crowd agrees that God is with them and that He would smile upon their acts of vengeance against the infidels.
Just at the point in his speech when he invokes the name of God to call for jihad and death, his body vaporizes in flash of light. His lieutenants recoil stunned but unharmed from a split-second of heat. An acrid smell of ozone, ash and cooked flesh hangs briefly in the dry desert air. The confused silence turns to panic as some in the mob fall to their knees or scatter in horror.
Now tell me: When you saw your preacher telling the crowd ÒGod told me it is okay for us to kill people for HimÓ suddenly vaporize in a flash of light, wouldnÕt you know that God isnÕt really on your side after all? Ask anyone and theyÕll tell you that whole Òthunderbolt from the skiesÓ thing is GodÕs patented Modus Operandi...
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