Good Old American Know-How

AP reports that an American F-16 fired on a US Patriot missle battery when the battery locked on to the plane, apparently believing it was hostile.

The UPI story says the plane "mistakenly bombed" the battery. I don't know--that doesn't sound like a mistake by the F-16 to me, not when a Patriot battery has already shot down a coalition plane.

Considering the Patriot's performance so far, I'm tempted to draw an anology with the Patriot Act--state-of-the-art technology for damaging our side.