--- Dwayne Monroe <idoru345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On the day that all news organizations with folks in
> Iraq were doing from-the-scene reports, I was
> driving
> home from work, listening to NPR.
>
> NPR’s reporter in Mosul (his name escapes me) was
> excitedly describing “all the firepower” that was
> brought to bear against the brothers’ oddly
> conspicuous hideout (“the villa’s massive columns
> have
> been whittled down to twigs…”). The ordinance
> included TOW anti-tank missiles – an odd choice it
> seems for dealing with four people armed with RPGs
> and
> AK47s holed up in a big house with nowhere to go.
>
> As the report rolled along, a sort of boy’s journey
> through the world of modern, portable uber-weapons,
> a
> question popped into my head: wouldn’t it have been
> better to capture them alive? Why didn’t US forces
> surround the area, retreat to a safe distance to
> avoid
> fire and wait the desperate occupants out?
>
> Has anyone heard an explanation for this? Something
> besides Rumsfeld's jimminy cricket imitative
> rantings
> that is.
>
>
> DRM
>
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