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Monday, August 08, 2005

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From a reader

As someone who has ignored his wife and three children for the last two years working on IED countermeasures, I assure you that it is not a trivial matter. It's a race of one-ups-man ship. I can jam or inhibit any cell phone, but what if the IED is programmed to explode upon the loss of signal, commanded by a land line, or by an idiot in the hole with the bomb (a trick the Japanese tried in WWII)? Right now the gear we've deployed has to be adaptable to a whole host of other things I won’t go into.

Also the urban environment makes the problem even more complex, one that aircraft are very unsuited for (not to mention that the threats the EW electronics of the prowler were designed for are a couple of octaves higher than the threat seen in Iraq).
Every time the bast@$ set one of these things off I get torn up inside. I'm going to miss another ballet recital, and my 20th anniversary is coming up, but I'll be at "customer" conference. Yet my kids know their Daddy is coming home from the office today so I'm not complaining.

The thing is this, we have many successes, you just don't hear about them. And you won't because 100 unmolested convoys and a bunch of unexploded IEDs along the way isn't news, but one flaming vehicle is the lead on CNN. No context is given to our ability to move forces, no context is given to how hard the enemy is hurt, no context is given to how we've responded and adapted to the enemy who are constantly trying to adapt and respond to us. No commentary on CNN illustrates that the IED are, in and of themselves, an admission by the enemy that they they’ve lost the initiative and are unable operate or maneuver against our troops.

The the enemy uses IEDs as a static propaganda weapon, not as an offensive one. If the enemy weren’t on the ropes the explosion of an IED would be a signal to start an ambush and for the real killing to begin; however, in Iraq, that’s all you get - an explosion. Which is the signal for the defeatists like Wolf to show their concern because, y’know, he was “there in March….” The enemy knows it can’t face our troops so they fire the bomb and get the hell out of Dodge praying and hoping that CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and the New York Times will do their dirty work for them. For that is the ONLY way the terrorists can win, and WB et al are following their lede hook line and sinker.


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