Originally Posted by roachboy

you would also think that those who continue, for whatever unknown reason, to support this absurd war in iraq could at least find a less self-defeating expression than fighting for "hearts and minds"....it is not at though it is not tied to the last large-scale military fiasco the americans participated in...there, the assumption was that somehow burning villages and massacring civilians could be outweighed by various Important Projects--obviously a total failure. same thing is happening in iraq--for example, if the americans are working to win "hearts and minds" you would think that they would maybe have not stood by while the iraqi museum was looted or not put an arms depot in the ruins of bablyon or used naplam in the context of the fallujah action or....or....or....