Politics: J'accuse!

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by bilmore
Not so sure. What we did seems to be, we ran up against a resistant cell, and then denied them the battle they wanted (after they communicated their willingness to burn Fallujah down with all remaining residents in one big fight.) We kept up the night raids, avoided forming a big pocket of people (which would be a natural target for bombs, attacks, etc.), never gave them a focus, and now the area will be taken over by Iraqi patrols. I predict that, in two months, this is going to be a nice, peaceable town, working hard to get rid of terrorists and building a life.

If this was a blink, it was a blink taken for reasons of not destroying a town to save it, and I can't see a problem with that, especially since I do think they've hit on the way to save it.

I hope you are right, but I do not have a great deal of confidence in a former Saddam general running the show. Where is his loyalty? Probably with us against the foreigners, but what about the Iraqi resistence? I'm skeptical.