Military commanders point to several accomplishments in Falluja...
The offensive...shut down what officers said was a propaganda weapon for the militants: Falluja General Hospital, with its stream of reports of civilian casualties.
-- With Capture of Falluja, a Goal Is Met. What's Next? Eric Schmitt, New York Times, November 15, 2004
With the grave and gathering threat of images of torn bodies of women, children, and the old removed, the world is made safe for blinkered, embed wartime reporting glorifying the ruthless heroism of our troopers in Iraq.
Victory in Iraq may take the form of shutting down
all the hospitals in Iraq.
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Call it Operation Rolling Massacre, flattening offending cities one after another to terrify and polarize the population into denying shelter to the insurgents.
And of course it has that seductive "just one more salted peanut" attraction for our escalation-prone military.
Now we've flattened Fallujah. If that example doesn't inspire Mosul to evict the insurgents, it's their turn. Then surely Ramadi will be the last one. If not...
If this is the only avenue to "success" Cheney, Rice,
and our military geniuses in the Pentagon can come up with,
then why stay in Iraq? |
