"Cluster bombs called 'war crime'"

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:34:32 -0500, Cub Driver
wrote:


Bombing the rain forest, as the B-52s did in Vietnam, is a bit of a
stretch but would probably qualify since the intention wasn't to hit
any specific thing on the ground, but to make areas of the ground
uninhabitable.

I'll disagee with that conclusion. Arc Light strikes were designed
against specific concentrations of enemy troops or supplies. Selection
of a target for an Arc Light strike was done by field commanders who
either had contact with enemy forces or intel to identify location of
enemy forces.

Had there been an intent "to make areas uninhabitable" the pattern of
Arc Light strikes would have been a lot more apparent.


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
Smithsonian Institution Press
ISBN #1-58834-103-8