Charles Drago Wrote:The Drone Affair is a provocation, pure and simple.

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As is the case with all sophisticated intelligence operations, was this one intended to A) deliver false impressions of state-of-the-art technologies, and B) stand as a casus belli?

This tells us nothing about Obama other than the fact that A) he obeys orders, and B) the echoes of Dealey Plaza yet reverberate about him.

Quote:Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has criticized the US President Barack Obama for failing to destroy the spy drone recently downed in Iran.

Cheney said in an interview with CNN on Monday that Obama should have ordered an airstrike to quickly destroy the downed high-tech unmanned aerial aircraft to prevent the Islamic Republic from subjecting it to examination.
He also said Obama was presented with three options for recovering or destroying the UAV, but he rejected all of them.

"The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it," Cheney said, adding, "You can do that from the air. You can do that with a quick air strike."
Iranian Army's electronic warfare unit successfully brought down the US RQ-170 Sentinel stealth aircraft with minimal damage on Sunday, December 4, 2011. The aircraft was flying over the northeastern Iran city of Kashmar, some 225 kilometers (140 miles) away from the Afghan border.
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Peter Lemkin Wrote:A lot of high-tech equipment, maned and unmanned have explosive charges within them for just such circumstances. Chaney's ideas would likely have precipitated a war, now matter how they were carried out....likely just what he'd want and what the whole incident may have been about!