Whenever war is near, you can count on U.S. media to tout the lethal efficiency of U.S. weapons. Now is no different.
CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin (8/30/13) declared:
Syria now is staring down the barrel of five U.S. warships…. The U.S. is believed to have submarines out there as well. All those vessels can carry cruise missiles able to strike targets more than 1,000 miles away with pinpoint accuracy.
On September 2, also on CNN, correspondent Tom Foreman told viewers:
Let’s talk about cruise missiles for a minute here. Cruise missiles are extraordinary weapons. They’re very reliable. They have pinpoint accuracy. They can carry 1,000 pound warheads and we might be talking about 100, 200, 300 of them being launched.
This kind of thing hasn’t been seen on CNN since… well, the last time the U.S. was precisely bombing a country. That time it was Libya, and a CNN military reporter (FAIR Blog, 3/21/11) was explaining that “American Tomahawk missiles can be reprogrammed in flight. If there was a risk of civilian casualties, operators could change the target after launch. But the Navy did not use that ability, confident it was aiming at military targets.”
How many attacks have there been where the only people killed or injured has been the people they set out to get?
Just how visceral is the irony of the corpress opining on “pinpoint accuracy”?
So we have a weapon that carry a Kilo-ton of blast force, and be either nuclear, or chemical in nature, but in any case what does ‘pin-point” accuracy mean in a weapon that has ‘blast radius’ – it’s not going to ‘hit one person and kill only them, unlike a single slug from rifle.
Saying the weapon has pin point accuracy is like saying a sawed off shot gun has pinpoint accuracy, totally meaningless.
Syrian civilians are forming human chains around the military targets for illegal US attacks.
I think that”pinpoint accuracy” is about as reliable as “surgical strike.” I supppose that both of those terms could only apply to a really good sniper.
They might as well be describing attacks against real journalists in our modern era. Take em out with pin point accuracy to an embedded position for their own good. Read them the news from a podium. No tough questions, please.
Gladly, we can still find sanity here.
Where does this article talk about missile pin-point accuracy? The only place I see it is in the tittle.