Reply #93: I'll answer it. [View All]

[Zavulon]

The only way to make that happen is to flatten everything in sight - not worrying about how many civilians die or how many mosques are destroyed. The Taliban and al-Qaeda hide out in mosques, hospitals and so on. You've got to destroy every building they might be in, and if civilian children die during the attacks, so be it.

If we're not willing to do that - and we shouldn't be - we should just pull out now. Sending an additional 30,000 troops instead of the 60,000 asked for is a lame attempt to pacify the other side, and we all know it won't work. Announcing a timetable in Iraq wasn't very bright, either. It's harder to see how a worse decision could have been made - compromise for the sake of compromise is rarely a good thing.