Well, I never saw this myself, but Daowood told me that they often go on patrols without bomb-disposal technicians, like Shafiullah, whom I mention in the article.
"If there were a way to bomb Iran without bombing Iran, that would be good.
But some wonder if it is possible without bombs and body bags.
We can slow them down — force them to reinvent the wheel — without bombing, especially if the international conditions get better".
Mandarin is taking to the airwaves to gloat over his various explosions, which appear to happen without bombs.
The army sent soldiers to secure the area (without bombing it) and, finally, a window opened for Mr. Radley to go.
Presumably, he meant the candidate who was in Vietnam and a war that America, with or without bombing pauses, did not win.
Still, it is worth asking why the act of detonating a nuclear weapon is treated as uniquely outrageous in a world full of outrageous acts of mass destruction, which are usually perpetrated without bombs.
Our soldiers continued to push through the eerie landscape of an unfinished war — culverts tampered with, yet without bombs; abandoned motorcycles and sagging cars, suspicious, recorded, and ultimately disregarded; garbage in trees mimicking explosives designed to shred people with ball bearings.
Vittorio Zucconi in Italy's La Repubblica says the president "has no desire to launch military action and is desperately trying to find a solution that meets his promise to punish Assad without bombing Syria".
