True. I think one person who replied to me said there were more and when the first attack came gave chase which left 3 behind. And as another poster after that said somebody needs to re-think some procedures. Urban warfare is almost impossible especially fighting unrecognizable enemies until fired upon. IMO everyone then should be assumed as being such till proven otherwise.
Fighting several factions in a place like Iraq may require abandonment of what for all practical purposes has now become a nation building project and go back to a more conventional means. Take out the nations infrastructure, set them back technology and commodity wise to 1950 by destroying roads, bridges, utilities, communications, etc and declare it a win.
I do have serious reservations about us ever winning over a majority of Iraq much less ever bringing peace to that region. Over 3500 years of history says it's not possible. An unclear military objective with U.N. writs as reasons for war has caused problems both in even deciding what is the military objective is and a light at the end of the tunnel so to speak. I don't think our congressional leaders on both sides have a true concept of war {pre Korea strategy} and are trying to fight it in a P.C. manner which can't be done. But that's just my thinking.
The problem is. We have two choices.
1. Find a way to bring the World of Islam into the 20th century, with values like peace, freedom and democracy
(or)
2. Be prepared to kill Muslims by the Million.
IslamoFacism is intent on Global Domination by force of arms. It is propelled by core commands in the Koran that if interpreted the way these people do, encourages the true believer to die in the service of accomplishing this goal by any means possible. And, if Islam is completely incompatible with Freedom and Democracy, then if we let these people win, the world would be much like the middle east, a twist of suffering and evil. Imagine the US ruled by the Taliban. Your children enslaved and corrupted by these people. Its hard to imagine anything worse since the antics of Hitler or the Communists. We are fighting pure evil.
Yet, these people are humans and its our obligation to attempt to save these people, and avoid the horror of a real "direct" confrontation where religion becomes the sorting factor. This is the death of so much WE hold dear. Our values and hopes and dreams for a peaceful world where humans live in dignity and self-determination depend on these Iraqi's being able to find a better life.
The Japanese and the German people have shown that they are not inherently evil. In fact, our generosity and willingness to sacrifice for their freedom and dignity has paid dividends that were unimaginable at the time.
But, understand, failing this, we will not be able to avoid fighting these people for real and for our very lives, possibly with the corpses of millions of Americans accusing the survivors of our stupidity and foolishness of allowing this threat to continue.