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All excellent points.

I know some people think such tactics foolhardy or barbaric, but history does show otherwise.

I'm a bit of an idealist in that I'd really like to believe there are people of Islamic faiths that are good people. I'm also a realist. Too many people try to temper my feelings of outrage toward terrorists, and the religion that brought them forth. They tell me of the good works our soldiers are doing for the people of Iraq, and how welcomed it is. That's all well and good. I'd expect nothing less from our great nation. What I need to hear, and see, is what good the Iraqis are doing for our troops.

With the recent deaths of our soldiers, civilian kidnappings, the barbaric and savage beheading of Nick Berg, and the lack of Iraqi support for our efforts that I so much have to see, I believe it is time to employ new tactics.

Re-deploy all coalition troops to the Iraqi parameter borders. Prior to re-deployment, warn all civilian contractors to leave the cities. With airdropped pamphlets and a 24-hour relentless barrage of radio and television transmissions, demand the Iraqi people surrender all insurgents, terrorists, and enemies of our efforts within 7 days, or face our wrath. Tell them that for every civilian contractor of coalition soldier killed during the seven-day moratorium, a city or town will be completely and utterly destroyed. And do it swiftly, and without further notice if killings occur.

Warn Iraq’s neighbors not to see our troops bordering their countries as easy targets. Warn those nations that any causality suffered at the hands of anyone within their borders will bring the complete annihilation of their military. Make those countries want to place their armies behind our soldiers as protection to our troops, and their own survival.

Make the Iraqi people do what they should be doing already. Accept no compromise on the demands. If they so value death that they will protect criminals, give them their desire.

Only allow American troops to resume their efforts to rebuild Iraq when, and if the Iraqi people have met our demands. If they do not perform as a civilized people, obliterate the country and cancel any plans of rebuilding it.

No one should confuse the "liberation" of Iraq with the liberation of European nations during WWII. Those nations were democratic in nature before German occupation. Those nations embraced their liberation as it restored what they had lost. Iraq has no such history.