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What would you have them do?

Wait for the next IED to go off?

Wait until the insurgents attacked with overwhelming odds?

Wait until the lawyers tell them they could fight back?

and who they can attack and who they can't?

Since I wrote that, information has come to light that suggests far from being a massacre this has been painted as it may be one massive set up and frame job by the press and others interested only in defeating our forces and causing us to quit because we don't want to offend Muslims when we attack and kill those of them that attack our troops.

What is the most discriminating weapon system the US military uses?

The one that almost always strikes only at those targets that actually should be destroyed?

Which weapon system selects which civilians are civilians and which combatants are combatants?

Which weapon system can be prevented from causing indiscriminate civilian casualties in the space of a thought?

The American Soldier.

No tank, no aircraft, no cannon, no ship, no shell, no bomb, no missile, will ever be as selective in battle as an American Soldier or Marine, that's why I don't believe that this was a massacre. They were attacked and fought back against those that attacked them, and civilians were killed but they weren't slaughtered without provocation or indiscriminately.

"They were attacked and fought back against those that attacked them, and civilians were killed but they weren't slaughtered without provocation or indiscriminately."

Or killed later by their own people using captured and/or black-market M16/M4/M249 weapons as a set-up. If they're not above blowing up women and children with IED's, they're not above shooting their own people for PR gain.

And even if the Marines did do it, I have no doubt those who planted and/or detonated the IED that killed the Marine (or assisted those that did) were among those killed. That's why it was in an empty lot between homes, not to avoid alienating the population but to not blow up their own houses.