[texaslil]

Sorry, you lost me. Ninety marines is ninety too many.

[adorno]

Sorry, you lost me. Ninety marines is ninety too many.

I agree with you.

But, carpet-bombing or leveling the city would've caused much more collateral damage and many more desths than the combat that was decided upon for Fallujah. Leveling the city would've just created that many more enemies and much more ill-will in the world towards the U.S.