[ArneFufkin]

If I'm an Iraqi citizen, no MOAB dropped 15 miles away trumps a Fedayeen rifle barrel aimed at my wife and children in the poker game of priorities. I'll grab a rifle and give it a go against the Godzilla/Mothra American brigade. Those tricky bastards, they didn't give me any bullets. Fodder for the Marines.

But, the Fedayeen can't sustain that program. The next Iraqi guy is going to resist his knock at the door. His neighbor is dead on the street in front of his house. The neighbor knows he was a carpenter, not a soldier.

The guerilla campaign is unsustainable. These guys will become nothing more than criminals holding hostages. There's one chance for surrender. Then the boys go in.

[the_doc]

I basically agree with your post. But don't take the MOAB out of the equation. It's part of it. The MOAB may be "loud" enough to wake up the pathetically confused souls in the civilian population to go find firearms BEFORE the Fedayeen guys knock and point guns at their wives and children.

My point is that civilians are going to have to start ambushing the Fedayeen. If they lose the firefights with the Fedayeen, they will die at the hands of the Fedayeen. But they already know that. So, we need to make the civilians understand in dramatically clear terms that they are definitely going to die at our hands if they stupidly permit the Fedayeen to drag them to the front lines of the city.