wars are fought by politians,service men and women are just one of the tools used in that war.yes f117's, b1's,are a big dollar tool and they do the job they where designed to do and do it well.but i think in some cases these stealth aircraft are used for another reason.you say that b52's and conventional attack aircraft could do the same job and you maybe right.but i wonder how the american public would feel about a large chunk of they taxes going to pay for this stealth technology and along comes a flight of virtually antique b52's and desimates the whole of afganistan.i think maybe these mega buck planes are used on times to justify thier cost and to assure that the budget keeps flowing for even more expensive and sophisticated technology.as for the helicopter crashes the ones that stick in my mind were the apache crashes in bosnia what was said on the news here in the uk,was that a statement was issued saying that the aircrew were not used to training in that terrain.yet the terrain seemed ideal helicopter country,pop up over the hill tops acquire tgt kill.it made it sound like apache crew practise at the salt flats.but there is always one thing to keep in mind with any war, never underestimate your enemy we see that even in this game we play but we only pay for our mistake with a little damaged pride.atitudes vary across the globe most british people think the americans a strange race and i'm sure americans feel the sme about us.the taliban don't view life the same way as most western races.vietnam was bombed by conventionalweapons,napalm,poisons etc but still did'nt go under.
a political decision was made and that was an end to that and the longer this conflict goes on the will tend to change.
on the day of the trade centres incident i think it was a senator holbrooke said that these terrorists must be hunted down and punished and any country harbouring them being just as guilty as the terrorists themselves.this was said without taking into account that for years the ira who have been bombing innocent people in ireland and the uk
had been made welcome in the usa,a fellow nato country who also supplied money to them.a couple of days later your president with this in mind stated that."from this day forward we wont tollerate etc etc".politians again let them fight the dam wars and there more than likely would'nt be any.britain is paying 500.000 gbp for every missle fired yet a man down the road from me has died from cancer because he's had to wait 2 years for an operation due to lack of money and then it was to late.now that makes no sence.
to end i'd like to sympathise with all those who lost someone,family or friend in the trade centre and pentagon attacks.
