[thechat] Lanchester's Law: Too Few American Soldiers

Judah McAuley judah at wiredotter.com
Mon Apr 7 16:32:34 CDT 2003


The NY Times carried the story pretty prominently.
http://tinyurl.com/90o8

It was also carried on the front page of my newspaper with a Washington 
Post byline.

Definitely a different tone though.

Judah

David Wagner wrote:
> Martin wrote:
> 
>> Just in case this didn't get reported over there:
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2921807.stm
> 
> Nope. After doing some serious digging on CNN's site, I found a (very brief)
> reference to a US warplane hitting a Kurdish convoy, but nothing else.
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/04/06/otsc.irq.arraf/index.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/90i1
> 
> We don't deal well with things like this:
> 
> <quote from BBC's John Simpson>
> "This is just a scene from hell here. All the vehicles on fire. There are
> bodies burning around me, there are bodies lying around, there are bits of
> bodies on the ground. This is a really bad own goal by the Americans."
> </quote>



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