We shouldn't "announce" anything. We shouldn't be huffing and puffing we should be quietly planning a very effective response and I would imagine that's exactly what the Marines are doing.
"We shouldn't "announce" anything. We shouldn't be huffing and puffing we should be quietly planning a very effective response and I would imagine that's exactly what the Marines are doing."
We shouldn't announce exactly what we are going to do and that's not what I was trying to say. I just meant they should speak out to let us know that they are doing something about this tragedy, which they already have done. Americans need to know their is going to be vengeance for attacks this brutal. Whatever action they take should be big enough for the Arab and Muslim world to see and hear about. Now that we have let the Arabs and other Muslim dominated Nations see Iraqis mutilating Americans on TV in a city we are suppose to control, we should strike back hard enough to send a message that it doesn't pay to behave like that.
Our Military made a huge mistake to just sat back and do nothing while this happened, especially when it's being filmed for all the Arab world to see uncut. It will be used as terrorist propaganda throughout the Muslim world from now on. There isn't any logic in letting people mutilate Americans like this for hours and hours without doing anything. It will look like a cowardly act in the eyes of the Muslim world and that will encourage more attacks. I would like to hear someone explain the logic in letting an American citizen get torn to pieces for hours in a city we control without doing a damn thing.
No matter how strong we hit back it won't make up for the mistake of not acting to save the bodies of these men in the first place. Now the families probably won't have a body to bury because it was likely shredded up and fed to dogs. Even though we could have easily stopped that, since it didn't happen until hours and hours after the initial attack. We should have stopped the mutilation and then went ahead with whatever we have planed next. I think the person who decided not to act needs to look at his decision and realize how stupid it was.
There is reason to talk tough for the benefit of the Muslim world while taking action that's even tougher. People in places other than Iraq need to see what happens when you do this to Americans. It's a terrible idea to allow the Muslim world to remember seeing the mutilated Americans without showing them that something extreme happens in return when you do something like that. In my opinion it's crucial to show that. Not only to the Iraqis, but to the entire Muslim world.
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