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To: Dayuhan who wrote (19465)	8/19/2002 3:32:06 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 21057

The political will for leveling cities just isn't there: we have to see ourselves as the good guys, and that perception doesn't square up well with the thought of leveling cities. The political will for house to house warfare is a pretty shaky prospect as well. Well, this won't be my war. I'm too old and I have health conditions that would get me classified 4-F in a microsecond. I guess if the country wants another Vietnam, it can have one. But somehow, some time about when the hundred-thousandth body bag comes home, the will for more drastic measures will surface. Good guys or not. But maybe we ought to decide whether we will go the mile before we get into this mess. The alternative would seem to be camping out on the periphery of the cities and sending commando raids in trying to get Saddam, hoping that if he is killed or captured resistance would crumble. Right. Provide guerrilla groups lots of good immobile targets. None of the alternatives are very good ones. Of course it is possible that the Iraqis might surrender en masse. And maybe Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy really do exist. I'm not betting on any of this, though. If we go in, we need a situation like we had before the Gulf War- -Saddam isolated and we have lots of space and lots of time to get everything ready- -or we need to be prepared for drastic measures. Or bloody carnage over many years.