...conventional artillery uses powder and does not perform well at high altitudes because of the lack of oxygen...“Artillery that uses an electromagnetic catapult will not need to face the same problem. This makes it very valuable in warfare on plateaus.”
"If the paeans to McCain by diverse political climbers seems detached from reality, it’s because they reflect the elite view of U.S. military interventions as a chess game, with the millions killed by unprovoked aggression mere statistics..."
"The rebels had reason to carry out a false flag operation"- Joshua Landis of the University of Oklahoma, widely considered the world's foremost Syria expert
"No one around has the media following of McCain... And the cause he championed - compulsive intervention in foreign quarrels to face down dictators and bring democrats to power - appears to be a cause whose time has passed."
Shelling of residential areas, tanks in the streets, multiple killed and over 27 wounded in street battles between factions, both under the UN-backed government.
"... by any normal reckoning, Afghanistan has been a catastrophe for US citizens, as well as of course for millions of Afghanis...But in a more sinister reckoning, there are powerful American interests which view the suffering and calamity of Afghanistan as a lucrative, strategic venture that must be kept going."
