As for Miller, he's been key to the 49ers' very dangerous read-option ground game, which involves quarterback Colin Kaepernick deciding after the start of the play whether to keep the ball and run it himself, or to hand it off to running back Frank Gore.
"The world's full-service airlines face a couple of unpleasant options: Ground aircraft or reconfigure them with fewer premium seats, as the global downturn in passenger traffic shows no sign of reaching a bottom," the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation said in a recent report.
Instead, they simply argue that the United States would keep bombing with impunity (whether over a course of weeks, months, or even years) or perhaps even expand our military options (ground troops?) to keep the program off-line, and thus "contained".
The UN resolution forbids an "occupying force", but on Sunday the government confirmed this still leaves the option for ground troops.
However, the IDF spokeswoman, Avital Leibovitch, indicated that such a move was not imminent, saying it was only an "option" and ground forces were "on alert".
Officials at the Defence Department are privately saying the same thing.And so, for the moment at least, the Clinton team is united in ruling out the option of ground troops.
"When I urged the president of the United States not to rule out the option of ground forces, then I also assumed responsibility for what may be the loss of young Americans' lives...
But suppose, per the second option, that ground is ungrounded.
With the first option, the ground is excavated and the scale is installed in a pit so that it is level with the road surface.
Military options against Al Qaeda and its Taliban hosts were limited and sketchy, covering a broad array of options: inserting ground troops, ordering air strikes, attacking with ship-based cruise missiles.
