[cyncooper]

Mort buys the "we protected oil but not artifacts" line.

Others slapping him upside the head (figuratively, of course).

[AFPhys]

Mort buys the "we protected oil but not artifacts" line.

I want someone to ask Mort and others toting that line what they would propose... maybe something like parachuting a company of 82nd onto the rooftop of the museum in the middle of Baghdad on day 2 of the war? Maybe Mort has some other brilliant idea...

Putting military into remote areas like oil fields, etc. was something able to be done. I know of no way to protect a specific target in the middle of the country without killing virtually every one of our guys who get so inserted.