[94915] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Every incident is an opportunity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephane Bortzmeyer)
Tue Feb 13 06:04:25 2007
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:02:01 +0100
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <g3mz3ik5ei.fsf@sa.vix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:12:05AM +0000,
Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com> wrote
a message of 17 lines which said:
> so if the last remaining superpower were to bomb a country in the
> middle east in preparation for invasion, regime change, etc., that
> superpower would be well advised to avoid hitting civilian
> infrastructure, assuming that its bombs were smart enough to target
> like that?
I believe that Barry Shein was assuming "invasion for a long-term
occupation and exploitation", like the Romans did in Gaule in 52
bc. Not "invasion for destroying a regime" like the Allied did in
Germany in 1945.
