[Icemanstever]

Have you read the Marine Corps Small Wars Manual? The manual covers such things as this. Also unless I am mistaken not everyone in the $#%hole of a city is an enemy. Remember that the Marines Know how to fight bad guys and keep also win hearts and minds. In Vietnam (I know this is not Vietnam but my point is still valid) The USMC did not have nearly the problems the army had in Creating Friendly Villages. in conclusion they know What they are doing and there is a reason besides being PC and hindered by R.O.E. that they are not flattening that city.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

"Yesterday in Al Kharma, near Fallujah, a significant number of anti-Iraqi forces assaulted defensive Marine positions close to a residential neighborhood. Marines repelled the assault, with lethal, accurate fire. When the fighting ended, residents came outside and told the Marines that the fighters had moved into their homes recently, virtually holding them hostage. The residents were able to then move about freely in their own neighborhood and beyond." ~ CJTF-7, April 15, 2004