overkill
CNN showed me an image of overkill today. its late so im making this quick.
i get back from an exam and decide to check cnn, just to see how the war is faring over there. cnn has this headline "US destroys Iraqi military vehicles." or something similar, they removed it already and replaced it with something or other featuring a picture of a desert....
anyway, the picture that went with that headline was of this massive piece of weaponry belonging to the US, a multimillion dollar instrument of war.. a tank. a massive tank all decked out in camo. painting.
and in front of this tank is a charred, bombed out, still burning piece of wreckage that was once a jeep.
now, it seems overkill to me to employ a tank against a miniscule jeep. im sure there was a reason..
not like the army just decided that they had this nifty toy and wanted to see how big a crater it left in the sand if they played with it a bit... no im sure this was a tactical decision...
"oh my god! they have a jeep! quick, bring out the tank!"
and the poor Iraqi's are facing off against tanks in their little jeeps... granted, its probably not boiling hot inside the jeep, what with it not having a roof, than the enclosed calustrophobic metallic interior of the tank.
oh well... the war goes on and the city has sex.