🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: misc.headlines
Article #1529

Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine

#1529
From: Dharmananda
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:14
43 lines
3086 bytes
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
Technical Details
Message-ID: <47845967.B1cLBHlfyv@news.verizon.net>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trnddc04.POSTED!c1e74c16!not-for-mail

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: f8421,cdf0a02fb48ba498,start
X-Google-Thread: 10637b,cdf0a02fb48ba498,start
X-Google-Thread: 10dda6,cdf0a02fb48ba498,start
X-Google-Thread: 10c52e,cdf0a02fb48ba498,start
X-Google-Thread: f899c,cdf0a02fb48ba498,start
X-Google-Attributes: gidf8421,gid10637b,gid10dda6,gid10c52e,gidf899c,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trnddc04.POSTED!c1e74c16!not-for-mail
Message-ID: <47845967.B1cLBHlfyv@news.verizon.net>
From: Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net>
Subject: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine
Newsgroups: misc.headlines,soc.veterans,alt.politics.usa.misc,hawaii.military,us.military
Followup-To: misc.headlines, soc.veterans, alt.politics.usa.misc, hawaii.military, us.military
Lines: 43
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:14:29 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.35.227.215
X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net
X-Trace: trnddc04 1100466869 4.35.227.215 (Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:14:29 EST)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:14:29 EST