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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
Yes, I speak plainly. I don’t attempt to use outlandish metaphors in order to make myself sound intelligent.
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Good one.
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Originally Posted by Lothar5150
Kobuchi, I don’t "feel" the world is a nasty place...I know it is nasty place...
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Did you know that, once, Falluja was a peaceful city? There was no insurgency. Americans could go where they pleased without being shot at. Wandering in the markets and so forth. Some marines decided to set up base in a conveniently empty schoolhouse: they piled the desks outside as a roadblock, stationed guns at the windows. Do you remember what happened when parents and teachers brought the children there to protest, at the start of Iraq's school year?
Some would think those actions prudent. Sound "force protection" at every fateful step.
Did you know that Fallujan rebels are now believed to be mostly hiding, waiting for soldiers to enter buildings? So now the orders, according to the troops interviewed, are to fire into houses
before entering. Every house still standing must be raided in this fashion. No choice, because Falluja just gets nastier by the day.
I think the whole chain of events in Falluja guided by insecurity and cowardice. I speak plainly too.