Whatever happened to napalm?

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Remember this vicious weapon? Remember the protests against Dow Chemical? Is napalm still a military option? I haven't heard of its use since Viet Nam. Am I just uninformed or has it been obsolesced by newer, less dramatic (but equally deadly) weapons? If we ever locate Osama's cave, I would think it could still be used.

I did a search for napalm on google and see that it is now for sale to the public. Hmmmm.

Napalm

-- (lars@indy.net), October 28, 2001

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The Marines in WWII had to burn the Japanese out of caves on Iwo Jima using "flame throwers".

-- (lars@indy.net), October 28, 2001.

I thought you believed in God and everything good. Sorry, my mistake.

-- BURNS ARE PAINFULL (napalm@burns. innocent people), October 28, 2001.

Yes?

-- (lars@indy.net), October 28, 2001.

napalm@burns.innocent people,

You have it wrong. Jet fuel burns innocent people, napalm burns terrorists hiding in the mountains of Afghanistan.

-- J (Y2J@home.comm), October 28, 2001.

Have you tried to order Napalm, Lars? Check out the site. You might be able to buy a t-shirt. :-)

-- Just A Lurker (Enjoy@your.posts), October 28, 2001.


Yes, napalm is still a readily available option, but there are several reasons why we are not using it in Afghanistan.

1. As you may have noticed, we are not actually trying to kill any of the Taliban. In fact, we are going to a great deal of trouble to keep them alive while taking out their infrastructure. The U.S. is not interested in eliminating the enemy because then we would have to pack up and go home. By turning this into a long drawn-out fiasco, we can justify keeping large forces in the area for a long time, gradually assuming the position of dominant power over the region. This is why Rumsfeld is saying we may never get Bin Laden and Dubya is saying this crusade will probably last several years. What they are really hinting at is that, like everywhere else in the world that we have forces, they will end up staying indefinitely.

2. If we were trying to kill Taliban fighters, napalm would be too easy. Our pilots prefer to try to pick off individual soldiers because it helps refine the accuracy of their shooting skills. It is good target practice, like a video game, except in real life.

3. Our supplies are limited, and most of what is available is being kept on reserve for the purpose of fighting biological warfare. If a highly contagious disease like smallpox breaks out within an isolated area, the rest of the country can be protected by napalming the infected area. A sort of "quarantine by fire" if you will.

-- Fly on wall at Pentagon (already@been.considered), October 28, 2001.


Napalm is a defoliator (sp?). It is used to kill vegetation to thin out a jungle. Last time I looked there was no jungle in Afghanistan.

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), October 29, 2001.

Sorry, I was wrong. I must have been thinking of Agent Orange. Although napalm was used to burn the jungles in Viet Nam.

Not sure how effective it would be in an arid climate like Afghanistan. Might work in a direct hit on a cave I guess.

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), October 29, 2001.


Buddy

I thought napalm was a gasoline of sorts that had the consistency of molasses and agent orange was the defoliator.

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), October 29, 2001.


'Nevermind'

Emily Litella (sp?)

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), October 29, 2001.



Look at the site. Napalm is a jellied gasoline. It is an anti-personnel weapon, an anti-property weapon, a terror weapon. I would think it could be used as bombs on dug-in Taliban troops if we ever find them. It should never be used near civilian populations.

I'm sorry, but the idea of using a terror weapon on terrorists strikes me as wonderfully appropriate. Oh how insensitive!

"Fly on the wall"--

Wake the fuck up, all that cynicism is very unhealthy.

-- (lars@indy.net), October 29, 2001.


Lars, that is true, but the site you cited is a parody.

-- Buddy (buddydc@go.com), October 29, 2001.

Agent Orange was basically 245T with 3 enhancers and a deposition agent added to get it to the ground without evaporating. It was used to defoliate (dry up) the jungle overgrowth. We use the same stuff without the T to spray a large spectrum of weeds in wheat. It's called 24D! I bet Napalm was also used sometimes to torch it after it was sufficiently dried.

-- Boswell (fundown@thefarm.net), October 29, 2001.

""Fly on the wall"--

Wake the fuck up, all that cynicism is very unhealthy.

-- (lars@indy.net), October 29, 2001."

HUH???

Having trouble facing reality there blind boy? LOL! Sorry to spoil your dreams, but it appears that YOU are the one who needs to wake up (and watch your language too there, CHRISTIAN).

You seem to be suffering from some kind of delusion that Dubya's crusade is just a big patriotic Superbowl party with a glorious happy ending. LOL, I remember when you and your fellow gung-ho morons thought the same thing about his Daddy's big Desert Storm show.

Daddy intentionally left Saddam alive so that the U.S. would always have a reason to maintain a military prescence in that oil-rich region of the world. It is precisely this kind of ignorant overbearing greed for power in the Bush family that has procreated an entire new generation of terrorists, defiant of our presence in Saudi Arabia. Now, 10 years later, they have invaded America and killed innocent civilians, a direct result of actions taken during your last big Desert Storm party.

Well, enjoy the show moron! But "make no mistake about it", it won't have a happy ending.

-- fly on wall (Lars is @ blind. fool), October 29, 2001.


Believe the last of the napalm stores were burned at Camp Pendleton last year.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), October 29, 2001.


Fly on the wall,

I am not a Christian anymore. I have seen the error of my ways and have converted to Islam. I am now committed to your destruction. You have been warned, decadent Western POS.

You think your anti-Americanism will save you? Catch a clue, infidel. You will be first.

All praise to Allah the beneficient.

-- (lars mohammed farouk @ Qsama bin Biden's.bunker), October 29, 2001.


"I am now committed to your destruction."

Really? Well, maybe you're right after all, there's no reason to be cynical.

-- fly on wall (i'll kill @ you. first), October 29, 2001.


Napalm is a jellied version of Petroleum that when detonated will stick to EVERYTHING - it will literally cook you in seconds, and you can't put it out very easily at all.

Incidentally, ever heard of a band named NAPALM DEATH? They are really good!!

-- Like I'd tell ya (eatme@napalmdeath.net), June 10, 2002.


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