| It never fails to amaze me how some people act like the military is a pocket knife, able to cut out the rotten spots in the apple without slicing the entire thing up. In reality, the military is more of a huge Scottish claymore. We don't dig out the rotten spots in the apple, we make applesauce. The Army's primary mission is kill people and break stuff. Not just the people that are doing bad things, as they are doing them. What I am trying to say it that the Rules of Engagment need to be more broad in what Americans are and are not allowed to do over there, as well as flooding the country with troops. It seems that Bush has got the right idea, we go door to door and clear building by building, then HOLD what we clear. And no more catch and release. If you are a bad guy, then you can look forward to a 5.56mm entering your bloodstream. If you are lucky. As it stands now, all you have to do is empty a magazine at us, then drop your weapon and we have to take you prisioner, and treat you humanly, and you might slip through the cracks and be back out on the streets in a week or two.
BTW, I am preparing to leave Italy. My family and I are soon to return to the land of Ahhh's, at Ft. Riley. My sources there tell me that I probably won't be there long though, seems there is a plane ticket with a deploying unit that has my name on it.  |