[bourbacki]

I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but what does it suggest about our control in this town if we are supposed to have imposed curfews, had multiple search and rescue missions, with air support, and still these barbarians manage to dump the bodies of our two troops without being detected?

[TET1968]

"I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but what does it suggest about our control in this town if we are supposed to have imposed curfews, had multiple search and rescue missions, with air support, and still these barbarians manage to dump the bodies of our two troops without being detected"

Until the last line, I thought you were talking about Baltimore.

[pollyannaish]

It says this is war and war is ugly, brutal, sloppy, hard work and unpredictable. And we lost these two.

May they rest in peace and may God grant the families peace and comfort.

[xzins]

It means that control is not what civilians think it is.

It is military dominance; it is not military observation of every square foot of terrain.

But it also suggests that the killing was done locally.