Quote:
Originally posted by lurkette
Yeah, that attitude has worked really well for Israel. 
Justified or not, firing back at people with guns, with missiles that have huge collateral damage is ultimately bad strategy. You knock out the guys who are firing on you...along with 40 innocent people whose grief-stricken families now hate Americans. When you're an occupying force you have to operate by different rules that sometimes tie your hands in individual battles. Sometimes you have to pick your fights to achieve the larger goal. "Well, they were in the way" is hardly going to fly as an excuse for why we're killing innocent civilians. In a frickin mosque, for cyring out loud. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
|
Sorry lurkette but you are wrong,
First of all hand tying gets troops killed plain and simple, and fight picking is not always possible, as per ambush.
Maybe if the people who were in that mosque told these combatants we dont want you in here there might have not been ANY collateral damage. (if there was any at all).
And it is up to civilians "not to be in the way" by either keeping away from hot zones or not allowing Iraqis with guns near them.