US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has criticised the US Air Force over its tactics in Iraq and Afghanistan, telling students at the Air Force university in Alabama that asking for extra support was “like pulling teeth”.
The Pentagon chief accused the military of being “stuck in old ways of doing business.”
“I’ve been wrestling for months to get Predator reconnaisance drones into the theatre,” he said. “The US Air Force tells me that a tightly-flown formation of B-17s will always get through and can put a bomb in a pickle-barrel from 20,000 feet, and that the only way to win the war on terror is to pound the Taleban’s ball-bearing factories in Germany and to nuke Japan. But I’ve seen the movies, and those Predator guys with the dreadlocks are damn near unstoppable. They can wipe the floor with aliens, and they even gave Arnold Schwarzenegger a hard time. Now, our intelligence tells us that Osama Bin Laden almost certainly isn’t an acid-dripping, chest-bursting alien, and we’ve got Arnie on our side right here in California - so I reckon that puts us in a win-win scenario.”
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