<< The Iraqi Army would disagree. It had them surrendering to sea gulls. >>
I doubt the carpet bombing had much to do with the outcome of that war at all, and was probably counterproductive there as well. It had a whole lot more to do with the thousands of U.S. troops and tanks that showed up in the desert and outgunned, outnumbered, and out-maneuvered the...uh....Yellow Guard. That's when they started surrendering. The carefully targeted smart bombs helped but just as an adjunct to the main attraction.Till then, they were holed up in bunkers so deep a nuclear blast wouldn't have woken them up. And so are the Beanz. They've had 23 years experience with bombing, you don't survive 23 years of bombing by getting blown to bits by bombs. If so, they would be speaking Russian in Kabul.
Que no?
Bottom line then as now, as with any war, it is the infantry that wins the war, nobody else. You have to physically take control. Bombing is mostly a morale booster for the hometown crowd. I hope they go in there with about a billion troops and kick ass and ask questions later, if at all. And soon. And SCREW Ramadan! Then, on to Baghdad and put that maniac and all his crazy's six feet under those miserable desert sands. Then, on to anybody else who threatens us that way, and screw what the world thinks.
But, as always, JMVHO..... YMMV
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