[SAR_dude]

...but nothing will be done...and I find it very depressing.

Pop an antidepressant, and wait 24 to 36 hours. I'm sure an operation is being planned right now. These things take a little bit of time to put together, to insure a safe operation. Rushing in will only get more Americans killed.

The administration may not even need to do anything. Don't the commanders on the ground have some leeway? On the other hand, the President is not one to stand down after something like this. He knows the game they are playing against us better than we do.

I predict that by this weekend, we'll see tanks rolling, with Apaches flying cover.

[inchworm]

I know what you mean, but we also passed on some of the most vile shit all sitting on one bridge....an opportunity lost. Tanks rolling wont do any good when all those cowards will just sit in their house and wait for it all to pass by

[bondjamesbond]

I always said about the Iraq War that we needed to go over there and kick somebody's butt, and Saddam volunteered by jumping up and down shouting "Me, me me!"

Similarly, I think we need to do a large scale urban pacification excersize, just to demonstrate to the Islamabombers what we can do. It looks like Fallujah just volunteered.

Isolate the city. Send in the armor. Create a sterile zone. Expand that zone until the entire city has been pacified. Eliminate all opposition and demolish any building used as a defensive position.

Its a big, difficult job, but it must be done. We have to demonstrate that we can control large cities. And after this atrocity, nobody is going to worry if we break a few eggs while preparing the omlette.