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Yawn. I'm certain, given a plethora of other exchanges we've had, that if JLA hadn't posted what he did you'd have ducked these questions like any number of others.
Indeed, there is no proper adult to child ratio for a Shock and Awe campaign.
Where, exactly, did this - now capitalized - "Shock and Awe campaign" phrase come from?
But try looking at it this way. If you were to reduce the scale and environment into 10 children and one adult in a house your army wants to capture, you'd probably do it differently. You wouldn't, for example, light the house on fire, would you?
I certainly might, it depends. The question is not how many children are in this house of convenient metaphor, but how many Americans are at risk, and by virtue of the one adult possessing what?
You'd be wiser to question - and condemn - an adult choosing to insulate himself with ten children as opposed to actions taken in blunting his efforts against others.
That Iraq's population is 42 percent children under 15 is a noteworthy consideration.
Previously, you said that "ndeed, there is no proper adult to child ratio for a [s]hock and [a]we campaign."
Now it's a "noteworthy consideration"? (Incidentally, that's an opinion, stated as if a fact.)
How could it not be, given what Bush and Blair are about to do?
To me, it simply isn't. Happily, and unlike the groups that Hussein's Iraq has supported, we don't attack civilians intentionally, which is a profoundly moral stance in a world where exhaustion as a military strategy is widely accepted and practiced.
Perhaps you should direct your same question to Hills and Knowlton, the public relations campaign hired by the Kuwait government during the last Gulf War.
Why? What do they have to do with my response to statements made by both you and TigerPaw made regarding the import of Iraq's child population?
And I don't think any humanitarian would agree that the best strategy is to take out the next generation of warriors.
I don't agree with that strategy either. You certainly did't get that from any of my posts.
However, I would say this: a nine year old pointing an automatic at me is going to get shot as quickly as a twenty-nine year old. More to the point, I wouldn't in any way, restrict our military's efforts from striking
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You are a complete and utter clown.
Finally, it's my firm belief there are other means available other than pulling the war trigger.
There are certainly other options, no doubt about it. I think that attacking them - brutally, quickly, and alone, if need be - is the best of them.
I agree with the French, it's a measure of absolute last resort.
And I think that, after 12 years, this action is long overdue.
Frankly, I don't see how anyone can support this war, yes, with those Iraqi children...
You go ahead and worry about the Iraqi children. I'm concerned about American children, and American adults. (Senior citizens, too. Yup.)
...based on speculation.
Huh?
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