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Responsibility for convincing Assad to stop
bombing
and shelling opposition-held areas would fall primarily on his international allies, Russia and Iran.
Many have suffered untold horrors, from repeated chemical weapons attacks to the
bombing
of hospitals and bread lines.
He also visited the UN compound in the center of Gaza to express the UN’s grave concern over its
bombing.
Whether they will fight after heavy
bombing
depends on the success of the air campaign.
Of course, the troops may be made invulnerable to
bombing
by being billeted among the civilian population, but armored vehicles and artillery cannot be hidden in apartment houses.
Before that, the initial "strategic
" bombing
will be of unprecedented dimensions, but not because there will be more strike aircraft than in the Gulf War.
But in 1991, less than 150 aircraft were equipped to launch the precision weapons that did 90% of the useful
bombing.
But such a clear conduit is not always needed; the perpetrator of the Manchester Arena
bombing
in May had associates who knew of his plans, but he was not part of a terrorist network.
That would mean
bombing
Damascus, which could harden Syrian support for Assad.
Israel belatedly announced, but did not carry out, a two-day cessation in
bombing
Lebanon, responding to the global condemnation of an air attack on the Lebanese village of Qana, where 57 civilians were killed and where 106 died from the same cause 10 years ago.
But what if Spain - and Europe as a whole - had reacted in the opposite way to the Madrid train
bombing
of April, saying: "We promise that because of that slaughter we will double our support for stabilization in Iraq by sending twice as many troops, experts, engineers, teachers, policemen, doctors, and billions of euros in support of allied forces and their Iraqi co-workers."
Musharraf’s fraying authority made him less effective and, indeed, less useful: the Taliban re-emerged in strength on Pakistan’s Afghan border, and his own ISI was proved to have been involved in the
bombing
of India’s embassy in Kabul.
Protests against the US-led coalition's
bombing
campaign had roiled Indonesia for weeks, increasing the country's already perilous instability.
In the skies of Serbia and Kosovo, NATO warplanes attacked target after target, not to support the liberation of territory or in furtherance of a strategic
bombing
campaign, but rather to change Milosevic’s mind.
Perhaps the most important was the memorable – but erroneous – view that Milosevic would give up after a few days of
bombing.
The intervention had its low points, perhaps none lower than the
bombing
of the Chinese Embassy, which was misidentified as a building that housed Serbian security assets – instruments of repression against Kosovo.
After all, Qaddafi survived President Ronald Reagan’s punitive 1986
bombing
raid on his compound only because former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and former Maltese Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici tipped him off.
After all, although many believed that his indictment by the Hague War Crimes Tribunal, announced during the
bombing
of Serbia, would make him fight to the bitter end, he yet accepted unconditional surrender.
When, as president, he supported the
bombing
of Yugoslavia in 1999 or the coming invasion of Iraq in 2003, he did not talk about geo-political or strategic objectives but about the need to stop human-rights abuses by brutal dictators.
The agreement provides a process for compensating the victims of attacks ranging from the 1988
bombing
of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, to the US air strikes on Tripoli and Benghazi in 1986.
After one recent disaster, in which more than 100 civilians died, the Pentagon immediately insisted that such
bombing
operations would continue.
Bypassing the UN once again, the US is declaring its intention to intervene directly by
bombing
Syria, ostensibly to deter the future use of chemical weapons.
Sudan bore the brunt of US retaliation, when President Bill Clinton ordered the
bombing
of an apparently harmless pharmaceutical factory near Khartoum as retaliation for an Osama bin Laden sponsored terrorist attack.
Before Clinton, President Ronald Reagan ordered the
bombing
of Tripoli and Benghazi in Libya in 1986 in retaliation for the
bombing
of a German disco in which several Americans were killed.
But do the recent suicide attack on the Bagram air base outside of Kabul, a key United States military installation in Afghanistan, and the failed car
bombing
in New York City’s Times Square mean that the “war on terror” (a phrase that the Obama administration has deliberately sought to avoid) has reignited?
Analyzing the failed Times Square bombing, Ambassador Zafar Hilaly, a well-respected former Pakistani diplomat, wrote “that nowhere else today have so many armed foreign outlaws been able to use the territory of a sovereign state to wage war for so long, and with such impunity, against other countries.
Following the Times Square
bombing
attempt, Clinton issued an even harsher judgment: “if a terror attack like the New York
bombing
were to be successful and found to have originated from that country, there would be very severe consequences.”
The verdict would lend credibility to other charges of criminality, such as the
bombing
of four Russian apartment blocks in 1999 and the murders of several investigative journalists.
With almost daily terrorist attacks, ordinary citizens victimized by shell and gunfire or misconceived bombing, the abuses of Iraqi prisoners, and the hostility of Iraq's Shiites - on whom the US had pinned high hopes for the peace process - American policy is in jeopardy of failure.
The test is suicide
bombing.
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