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JMJ
DefenseNews.Com has an article that seems to indicate that there is a realization that perhaps, the US and the Western Governments are actually involved in a religious war.
WASHINGTON — Taking out an Islamic State command-and-control facility is one thing.So ... here we are after 10+ years the light is finally going on ...
That’s what the F-22 fighter is supposed to, and what it did last week, according to US military officials. The overnight run into Syria marked the first time the Lockheed Martin-made warplane had put steel on target.
Fixed structures are little match for fifth-generation aircraft armed with the world’s most sophisticated and precise munitions.
The same goes for other Islamic State targets that the jet could be tasked with bombing — things like mobile oil refineries, vehicles and bases.
The F-22 passed its first combat test. That should instill confidence in its ability to deliver on the mountain of promises made about its paradigm-changing attributes.
But it’s doubtful the Raptor fleet can change the most important paradigms in America’s war against violent Islamic groups.
That’s because no amount of Raptors can destroy the true foundational fibers on which groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaida are built: Ideas. Poisonous ideas.
If the United States and its allies have learned nothing else after 13 years of battling violent Islamic groups, they should have learned this: Defeating the ideas — delivered to disenchanted, frustrated and angry young men in madrassas — is another thing.
A far more difficult, and arguably, a far more important thing.
You won’t find that on any F-22 fact sheet.
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