But a high degree of technical expertise is not necessary since even the most botched and ineffective bomb attack has a powerful political impact so long as it happens in the US, as was demonstrated by the Nigerian student who tried and failed to blow up a plane over Detroit at Christmas by detonating explosives in his underpants.
In that speech, the Cuban foreign minister, Felipe Pérez Roque, denounced the United States for waging an "ineffective, unjustifiable bombing campaign" in Afghanistan, which "has targeted children, the civilian population and the International Red Cross hospitals and facilities as enemies".
Also, a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq and Syria would force Muslim Turkey to step up and send its large and capable army into both countries to clean out ISIS, thus avoiding the anti-Western backlash of ineffective and counterproductive Western bombing there.
The bombing campaigns were ineffective and those involved were quickly rounded up.
Bombing them proved ineffective: They were mobile and strongly protected.
Sunni militias, wanted to destabilize Iraq's Shia government but needed better tactics than the suicide bombing that proved ineffective.
Yet the Americans denied the requests to bomb Auschwitz, citing several reasons: military resources could not be diverted from the war effort (as they were to support the non-Jewish Poles); bombing Auschwitz might prove ineffective; and bombing might provoke even more vindictive German action.
Although that agent succeeded in foiling one serious bombing plot against the United States, he was rendered ineffective once his existence was disclosed.
Zuckerman's reports, filled with vulnerability indexes and allied calculations, consistently emphasized the value of selective, strategic targeting bombing of transport nodes rather than wasteful and ineffective attempts to crush morale through area bombing.
During the Vietnam War, for example, Operation Rolling Thunder, which was implemented by President Lyndon Johnson and designed to be a ceaseless and relentless bombing campaign against North Vietnam, was ultimately regarded as ineffective.
