Exactly....Not much has changed in the Corps -- and the high level attention they're giving this is smelling like the story will not be pretty.
"Carpet Bombing"
I do support laying waste to large areas of "insurgent" sanctuary or support. That is OUR strength....we have withheld it and the enemy is NOT bleeding or dying enough to dissuade him from taking the fight to our forces that are "just down the block"...
But I mentioned Dresden and Hiroshima to make the point that there were mostly INNOCENT CIVILIANS killed -- by the hundreds of thousands, yet we have today's media screaming bloody murder over the Haditha scenario....
What it tells me - is America will accept the large scale murder of the enemy's "innocent" population if that killing is done by "impersonal" pilots at 15,000 feet....rather than the Grunt who is there in the enemy's face -- eyeball to eyeball...
Hell, the same reaction met the bombing of civilian positions in Yugoslavia -- where we killed "innocent CHRISTIANS" to "save Muslims" from an over hyped exaggerated "genocide".
Americans need to decide only one thing about waging war.
Do they wish to survive? To survive, they must not lose.
All else should be confined to a classrooms in "ethics"..
Our enemy is little concerned about the "issues" that torment us.
Semper Fi
Now if we had no intention of invading an enemy and just level their cities... I'm fine with that