[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.

[texaslil]

Uh, Oh, Now you really lost me. Fallugah was evacuated of civilians, for the most part. Only ones left were insurgents. You must be very young. My parents generation leveled Horoshiman and Nagasaki. 180,000 Japanese were killed. Bottom line, they're now one of our greatest allies. Ended the war too, if memory serves.

[texaslil]

See post #47. Unless the military was lying to us, Fallugah WAS EVACUATED. It was assumed that everyone that stayed was an insurgent, or SYMPATHIZER. Further, Fallugah was an insurgent town. Leveling it would have only assured it would no longer be habitable.

[notfornothing]

I'm not for the arbitrary flattening of an entire city either, but I am suggesting that we have a couple AC-130s circling overhead to use as needed.

If you are an insurgent and you fire from a house, guess what? That house gets flattened - and goddamnit, same thing goes for mosques. Sooner or later the locals will get the message that allowing these cockroaches to hide among them is not worth the risk.