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...hockey fans at Dartmouth's Thompson Arena are showered during intermissions with coupons for local businesses...
...Thompson: We used four types of weapons; the other three had more extensive track records than the J-SOW, and at least two of them are very accurate...
...Thompson They're new weapons, but we've used them before, in the Balkans. When we look at this story, we need to keep in mind that these things were launched from 40 miles away and landed tens of yards from their targets. And considering that 10 years ago we couldn't get anywhere near the target, this is actually a pretty good performance...
...appear to have behaved better than the J-SOWs. And if you're wondering why there's a disjunction between the immediate post-bombing announcements of a super-successful mission and the current mea culpa, then you haven't been pounding the Pentagon corridors long enough. TIME's Mark Thompson, however, has, and herewith offers his take...
...Thompson:No - people I've talked to suggest that while this wasn't a perfect performance, it was good enough to do what we wanted to do. With this kind of bomb, which the Pentagon calls a "near-precision" weapon, you want to protect pilots, so you need to fire from long ways off, and the challenge is to develop weapons that can be fired from a long distance with great precision...