Thursday, April 29, 2004
'TIS A SIEGE (IV)
The BBC reports:
US troops in Iraq have launched new air raids against insurgents in Falluja as President George W Bush vowed to do everything to "secure" the city.
For a second night an AC-130 gunship bombarded rebel positions in the city.
Mr Bush said military commanders would take whatever action was necessary to eliminate "pockets of resistance". . .
Ah, and now that voice from Manhattan's East Side:
But UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged restraint. Mr Annan said if civilians were harmed, the anti-coalition resistance would grow. . .
In a BBC sidebar his exact quote is:
"Violent military action by an occupying power against the inhabitants of an occupied country will only make matters worse"
Thank you for that Mr. Annan. I'm sure the administration had no freakin' idea.
That the U.S. could blow Fallujah off the face of the earth without so much as breaking a sweat, never enters into such discussions. The U.S. is putting its own troops lives on the line in order NOT to unduly harm non-combatants -- even though it would be so much easier, and sparing of valuable U.S. Marines' lives, simply to level the place.
But the U.S. is not a "leveller". The U.S. wants to kill the enemy. It is there to liberate, not to kill those who are not the enemy. ¶ by Robert, Thursday, April 29, 2004
The BBC reports:
US troops in Iraq have launched new air raids against insurgents in Falluja as President George W Bush vowed to do everything to "secure" the city.
For a second night an AC-130 gunship bombarded rebel positions in the city.
Mr Bush said military commanders would take whatever action was necessary to eliminate "pockets of resistance". . .
Ah, and now that voice from Manhattan's East Side:
But UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged restraint. Mr Annan said if civilians were harmed, the anti-coalition resistance would grow. . .
In a BBC sidebar his exact quote is:
"Violent military action by an occupying power against the inhabitants of an occupied country will only make matters worse"
Thank you for that Mr. Annan. I'm sure the administration had no freakin' idea.
That the U.S. could blow Fallujah off the face of the earth without so much as breaking a sweat, never enters into such discussions. The U.S. is putting its own troops lives on the line in order NOT to unduly harm non-combatants -- even though it would be so much easier, and sparing of valuable U.S. Marines' lives, simply to level the place.
But the U.S. is not a "leveller". The U.S. wants to kill the enemy. It is there to liberate, not to kill those who are not the enemy. ¶ by Robert, Thursday, April 29, 2004
