[Cannoneer No. 4]

American commanders may not indiscriminately bomb the city in order to exact revenge. Nor may the U.S. target force at a smaller sub-section of non-combatants in order to make a point.

[Thud]

But we may remove fortifications and obstacles used by the enemy, then plug those with concrete to prevent reoccupation. I.e., flatten Fallujah, pave it and turn it into a parking lot.

There is precedent for this - what we did to Aachen, Germany, during World War Two. We filled the underground utilities with concrete and turned 80% of all structures larger than outhouses into piles of rubble.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/2002/MOUTGabel.htm

"Knock 'em All Down: The Reduction of Aachen, October 1944
by Christopher R. Gabel, Ph.D."