Iraq: Al-Sadr makes a move.

tscottme wrote:
"David E. Powell" wrote in message
ups.com...
They really should have gone after this guy about 2 years back when he
started the problems. Southern Iraq had been pretty quiet, and now this


Nearly all parties involved have been trying not to wage war sufficiently
for several years now. This is just another example. From the start this
war should have been waged as if every last creature will be killed, and let
the trouble makers race each other to prove they are no longer in the
resistance business. Instead the coalition forces have been racing each
other to see which partner can avoid seeing what is plain to see. Until we
see a General Sherman approach of taking the war into the centers of
support, not just shooting the "foot soldiers" which allow the power brokers
in Riyadh, Tehran, and Islambad to indulge in their fanatsy, this war will
continue.

It's an insurgency. You don't win by killing the enemy. You win by
cutting off their reinforcements.

--
Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall

If FDR fought fascism the way Bush fights terrorism, we'd all be
speaking German now.