Lawry, The US gave advance warning to the population, many of whom left for surrounding villages. Not a good military procedure, but necessary if civilian casualties are to be kept to a minimum.
However, this is a consequence of the terrorists strategy, which is to embed themselves among civilians and attack from their cover. The deaths of civilians matter to you and I but not to the terrorists. What can be done about thugs who take over a city and control it by violence - doing an occasional beheading? The best is of course negotiation but that's unlikely. Then, you can do nothing. Simply, leave the terrorists in control of a terrified population. Reminds me of the old saying "All that is needed for bad men to win is for good men to do nothing." Then you can go after them - which was done in Falluja and is being done in Tal Afar. All the terrorists need do to avoid civilian casualties is for them to get out of town - but they won't do that. These are decisions that we on the sidelines don't have to make. Thank goodness! Just remember the difference - we kill civilians by accident, they kill civilians deliberately. Just like the difference between the Israelis and Hamas. Harry ******************************** Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 818 352-4141 ******************************** -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lawrence deBivort Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 7:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] US looses more support With today's news comes word of the US's attack on the city of Tal Afar (misspelled, of course by the Western media as Talafar). Civilians are reported fleeing. So now we have one more city implacably committed against the US. Will as many die as did in Fallaja? The bureaucratic mistakes of Katrina stand as nothing, in my opinion, compared to the moral depredations Bush has committed us to. Lawry _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
