[yonif]

In my opinion, it doesn't matter if Fallujah is taken or not. This will not solve anything. It may defeat a physical nest of terrorists, but the fact is the ideology that is driving these people to take up arms against Americans will not go down with them. The ideology must be targeted. This is hard especially because it isn't just the militant Islamic ideology which is going unhindered due to political correctness in Iraq, it is also seeping in from Iran and Syria. Iraq is in a swamp of this ideology.

[Polybius]

In my opinion, it doesn't matter if Fallujah is taken or not. This will not solve anything. It may defeat a physical nest of terrorists, but the fact is the ideology that is driving these people to take up arms against Americans will not go down with them. The ideology must be targeted.

Fayullah is a Baathist stronghold and those thugs were motivated by power rather than by religion. Saddam may have paid lip service to Islam but he ran a de facto secular regime.

The Baathist ideology can be eliminated by killing hard-core Baathists and that is exactly what is being done in Fayullah.