Let The Carpet Bombing Begin: U.S. Deploys B-52s In Fight Against ISIS
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
04/10/2016
Several months ago, the US press and military had a field day with Donald Trump’s suggestion to send the heavy equipment to Syria and Iraq and “carpet bomb” the Islamic State. In February, Army Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland, who directs the coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria, butchered the idea and detailed why it’s militarily unacceptable. “Indiscriminate bombing where we don’t care if we are killing innocents or combatants is just inconsistent with our values,” he said in response to a question from CNN on the possibility of using carpet bombing.
“We are the United States of America, and you know we have a set of guiding principles and those affect the way we, as professional soldiers, airmen, sailors marines conduct ourselves on the battlefield,”
Fast forward just two months later, and it appears Trump may have been on to something.
According to Reuters, for the first time in 25 years, the U.S. Air Force deployed B-52 bombers to Qatar on Saturday to join the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. This is the first time the B-52 has been based in the Middle East since the end of the Gulf War in 1991.
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