[Becki]

Are you trying to prove the point of the man you quoted in your post?

Of course not. And I have never been one to say MOAB the whole place. I don't think that way.

That said, the Pentegon reports of the action did state that they had destroyed three buildings being used by the insurgents. By the man's own words, he certainly sounds like one to me.

Becki

[Burkeman1]

No. You don't understand insurgent tactics. Maybe they took over the shop next to his and used it as a bunker or concealed firing position? What was the shopowner to do? Fight them when they came in? He gets shelled and fired upon and his livelhood is gone? What would you have done? We have taken their guns away remember! Maybe someone was killed by such an attack by our troops by mistake- a son, daughter, wife, grandparent, husband? They have vendetta. It isn't political or even really against the USA as a people or country but a cultural thing.