This assault on Fallujah is like hammering jello.

The insurgents have faded away rather than stand and fight against an enemy superior in force, size, training, equipment, fire power, technology, and mobility. How could the US army have not foreseen this? They'll fade into the woodwork, only to return to fight in other locations. Their support will grow as reports of the dozens, if not hundreds, of dead civilians who paid the cost of not being able to get out of the way in time.

It's like Vietnam on sand. I'm not a cut-and-runner, but there's a right way to fight and a wrong way to fight... and our troops are being ordered to fight the wrong way. They're being ordered to fight in a way that will pretty much insure that we will lose in Iraq and become more of a hated nation to the rest of the Muslim world for another two generations.

Such a waste of lives. So little to show for it all besides the oil.

You hit Fallujah here, you make a mess in other parts of Iraq. That's the insurgents scattering and splattering elsewhere. They knowe a logn long time before the attack when it was coming and where. This won't hamper the resistance one bit. They began their "splattering" counter attacks all over the country within a couple of days of the main fighting in Fallujah.

This produces nothing but corpses, rubble, and resentment.

this war rather reminds me of the old english wars against wales actually. the english could never win because the welsh would just sneak attack and melt away, never coming to "battle". and if their villages and cities were attacked, they would just empty them out and go somewhere else.

and the Soviets' experience in Afghanistan.

They are pretty successful at blowing those pipelines into tiny pieces. Over and over and over again.

. . . and Haliburton and GE and others can increase their profits. The War is going WELL!! :evilgrin:

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

"People in Falloojeh are being murdered. The stories coming back are horrifying. People being shot in cold blood in the streets and being buried under tons of concrete and iron... where is the world? Bury Arafat and hurry up and pay attention to what's happening in Iraq."