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May 31, 2005
Is that unsporting, like attacking on Yom Kippur?
I saw a bunch of Pakistani sailors in town for fleet week amongst the thousands of US sailors wandering the streets of NYC. I noticed that they, unlike the American troops, often wore a beard, presumably for religious reasons. We don't allow our troops any more facial hair than a small mustache because it interferes with the operation of the gas mask. They don't make a proper seal when they go over the hairy skin. We probably also like the uniform, clean-shaven look. Now the Pakistanis have been lousy allies, helping us when they have to and hurting us when they think they can get away with it. As such, I don't feel too bad about them inspiring what I'm about to suggest.
Why not take a page out of the unconventional warfare playbook, and use of knockout and nauseating gasses on Islamic militants. We know that they will have trouble using gas masks, so while gas has a bad reputation, at least it might decrease the harm we do to innocents. I feel kind of dirty using someone's religious rituals as a way to defeat them in war, but this is a matter of life and death, and better a hundred Islamic militants than a single innocent Iraqi civilian. I just wouldn't let on about the reason for this change of tactics, or we'll have a serious PR problem .
Posted by OneEyedMan at May 31, 2005 9:47 AM
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