[kinoxi]

If we can't fight it the way he and McArthur would we should leave

What the hell are you talking about? Different times require different strategies. Are you suggesting unguided inaccurate carpet bombing?

[PAR35]

Are you suggesting unguided inaccurate carpet bombing?

No, that was me on this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1742960/posts

First you break both their will and their ability to fight, and THEN you build them back up.

[wku man]

Wrong. That's Rumsfeldian hogwash. The basic precept of warfare is that you go in with enough strength to finish the job as quickly as possible, inflicting as much harm as necessary on your enemy, while sustaining as little harm as possible. You defeat your enemy first, gain his surrender and submission, then help him rebuild. We thought the "war" was over when Saddam's statue came down...we were wrong. They were merely regrouping to fight a guerilla war they knew we didn't have the will to fight.

And yes, absolute, indiscriminate carpet bombing would've been a good start. It would have shown our enemies in Iraq and elsewhere we meant business.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[El Gato]

Are you suggesting unguided inaccurate carpet bombing?

Have you seen the pictures of the "Carpet bombing" of the Hanoi rail yards after Linebacker II? Overlapping craters, a very few craters outside the rail yards.

Todays B-52H is much more accurate than the B-52D and -Gs of 1972-73. Given an area target, such as a rail yard, or the "training camp" in the news today, yea, I'd send in the Buffs and the Bones.

Buffs and Bones can also deliver multiple precision guided munitions on a single pass.