Well a few points here - First off, originally you were complaining and calling "PC" the notion of "worrying about casualties" - As in our military was being too concerned about inflicting unneeded causalities on our enemies --
You were completely wrong here, in that no where was this assertion ever made - The concern over casualties was for OUR forces. Period. Nothing to do with the enemy.
That you would have rather this extremely successful Op use laser guided munition is irrelevant. They weren't needed. Nor do you have all the information surrounding this Op to even make such a statement.
There could be over a dozen different reasons why putting a bomb on this location would have been not only foolishness but counterproductive to our greater goals.
As for the PC crap. That is exactly what that BS charge is. Crap.
We have been fighting and continue to fight the most successful unconventional war in history. Our enemies since Sept 11th have suffered one strategic defeat after another. We have not suffered one.
I agree with you that there is no info in this report other then the results. But that is true in any article. We can only derive a conclusion from premises.
The soldiers had been told that the house was a being used as a base by insurgents - and up to three suicide bombers were expected to leave it later that morning.
Base of insurgents would assume that there are bomb makers there. Other planners. Base like in Base. The perps (bombers) were leaving, not the support staff or band of thugs. There still there. That is a good reason to eliminate it from the earth. Neighborhood or not.
If one of them was allowed to detonate a device, scores of people could be killed or injured.
Here's the pc crap. Scores could be killed or injured. Oh my God. Well this is war. If the neighborhood folks would see what it cost in life and limb to live next to one of these operations, they would get the message that it is just not the best idea. We would see target houses (insurgents) with empty houses for blocks around.
That is the point I am making. This area or building will fill back up with trash from the vacuum created by the dead 3.
And please don't misunderstand. I am grateful for the skill and courage of the SAS and my hats off to them for an outstanding job. They are hero's. But I still feel killing one at a time will have us doing this forever. They have to be completely annihilated along with their sympathizers. So it is my conclusion, without knowing all the facts and will never, that they should have taken this joint out.