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Article #1529Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine
From: Dharmananda
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:14
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:14
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It inevitably results in civilian casualties, and the US has just perpetrated a major humanitariian disaster, if not genocide in al Fallujah, by means of this perfectly atrocious and dysfunctional doctrine. All of the above is obvious, to the point that it is almost trivial to even write it, but also consider this: Originally it was thought that the rebel stronghold in al Fallujah was in the Jolan district, in the NW sector, right to the east of the Euphrates. But, surprize, surprize, it was actually in the south. In the last few days, in southern Fallujah, they discovered an elaborated underground warren some 300 m X 500 m, "stocked with medical supplies." Their response? To bomb the thing to oblivion, with four one-ton bombs. Brilliant, guys. That sure taught them a lesson, huh? Well, the jury is still out on that one, but I question the swiftitude of disappearing the best evidence we had that the attack on al Fallujah was justified in the first place. IMO, they should have cordoned the place off, posted guards around it, and gone about the rest of their business, until the inhabitants of the warren either starved or came out with their hands up. Then that whole damned warren could have been turned into a museum. All the UN forces that arrived in Iraq, for the rest of human history, and every single diplimat or meddler with a problem about why we attacked al Fallujah could have been given the grand tour of exactly how dug in and dangerous these terrorists were. But no, it was just too much fun to blow the thing to smithereens. Yee Ha! Lets' face it. Neotards are fundamentally and irreversibly stupid, and they are out of their depth in Iraq. They seriously need to be out of there, and the sooner the better. -- Triratanam sharanam gaccami Dharmananda http://mysite.verizon.net/res6zeam/american-buddhist/news.html
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