I asked a question. The fact that precision bombing was not as prevalent when the 'McArthur' types were carpet bombing does in no way imply that they would not have used it. I think they would prefer to hit their targets. I could be wrong.
The whole country, save the Kurdish areas,
should have been our target. Carpet bombing, wide-scale and indiscriminate,
should have been the first phase of the "war". Terrorize
those ragheaded SOBs, beat them into submission, and scare the living hell out of the rest of the Muslim ragheaded, goat-lovin' world at the same time. Precision bombing only sends a message that there are some lines we're not willing to cross, and in the Eastern mindset, that seen as a weakness. The only way to beat them it to show the entire Muslim world they can't possibly stand up to us, and to do so would only result in their extinction.
But to do so would mean we'd have to have leaders with spines, which we don't have. We'd have to have military and civilian leaders who remember what it means to fight a real war, which we don't have.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I think they would prefer to hit their targets. I could be wrong. Today's "carpet bombing" does hit its targets. Ask the Taliban. The BUFFs did close air support by dropping a load along their trench lines. Overlapping craters. Heck we could, at least on a good day, do that in '69, although not quite as well.
Area targets call for area bombing. Single targets, like old what's his name