No, it makes perfect sense. What's actually happening is that we are facing inferior forces that don't have the same order of battle we do, so Oprah Winfrey cries for the underdog and tells us we can't use our advantage and destroy them when that is in fact what we should do. We should use the MBTs to flatten everything in front of us, then let the infantry walk in behind them.
What the Iraqis and assorted towel-headed banditos over there are doing now is classic underdog: we cannot win in a stand up fight, so we will make this a war of attrition. Eventually, one side or the other must reach their pain threshold to cause the fighting to cease. This was the Japanese strategy at Iwo Jima, Okinawa and in the Phillipines. We can't win, so we'll make the other side suffer.
On our side, we have technology, expertise, capital, civic militarism and individual initiative to fight with. They have God. It is their belief that God is stronger than steel. In any other case, they would be right, but I haven't heard of the Almighty taking direct action in a battle since Jerhico.
The Japanese had God (sort of) and they lost, too.
In the end, it is not gadgets and gee-gaws that win battles. What wins is the desire to get the damn thing over with as quickly as possible, and the way to do that is to make the other side suffer so terribly that they will never take up arms again. This was the resoning behind the gatling gun, the machine gun and ultimately the atomic bomb. All of which, are WESTERN inventions, btw.
Still, to a greater extent, when we talk about order of battle and whatnot, we're talking about military science as opposed to the individual warrior ethic, which is what the other side has in abundance. We have organization, training and discipline, and these are far greater weapons than bravado and machismo. The other side in this war does not practice military science as we know it because it is alien to their culture. This explains why Israel can beat off the entire combined might of the rest of the Middle East on a regular basis. These guys LOOK like soldiers, but they do not fight like them.
That's why you have to kill them off, brutally and without remorse. These arab soldiers are not that far removed from the Huns -- when they have the advantage they are brutal and cold-blooded. When they are on the receiving end, they run off and beg for mercy before slithering from their holes to fight again. Until enough of them are dead and their DNA is removed from the planet, they will continue to snipe, hide, run and thgen fight again when it suits their puropse or whenever they think they have a chance.