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We would have just provoked them. The smart play was to let this thing fade out.

Kill them all, let Allah sort them out...

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[Rodney King]

Wow, Kristol wrote something that wasn't a sniveling attack upon his personal enemies.

[Travis McGee]

It would be unfair to dwell on the lame comment by one US commander on the day of the atrocity: "Should we have sent in a tank so we could have gotten, with all due respect, four dead bodies back? What good would that have done? A mob is a mob. We would have just provoked them. The smart play was to let this thing fade out."

Really? Unprovoked by the sight of a tank, in the following days terrorists in the Fallujah area continued their assaults against US troops and Iraqis working with Americans. In any case, the alternative to inaction on March 31 did not have to be a single tank. The US could have sent many tanks, along with air support, to disperse the mob, kill those who didn't disperse, intimidate onlookers and recover the bodies of the dead Americans. And the US could immediately have put a price on the head of the killers and those who desecrated the bodies.