I don't think an M1 Abrams is going to be able to maneuver down two sets of rickety stairs to the basement of a Jakarta produce storefront to kill 4 al-Qaida recruiting agents. The Bradley is neat, but try sneaking it 13,000 feet up the Andes and down a crevasse to a La Paz llama ranch where Hizbullah money men and Mexican smuggling czars are finalizing the details of a massive operation to move hundreds of Islamist suicide martyrs and tons of explosives accross the border through New Mexico. Moving big booming guns into Toronto, Hamburg, Prague, Detroit and Sao Paulo won't make Islamist terrorists come out with their hands up. We're not about turning buildings indiscriminately to rubble anymore. Well, maybe Detroit ... ;^)
Look at Baghdad ... what are M1Abrams tanks and long range artillery guns going to do to root the last of Saddams Special Guard and Hit Men from their hiding places?
Nothing, it'll just freak out the abused locals who are the ones who'll help us find these guys. Let's put 100 Tanks on the streets. What occupation?
They're standing up on balconies with high-magnification binoculars chatting on satellite phones.
They're reporting! LOL
We should give these people a take it or leave it offer: we provide an armed escort to Baghdad International and put them on a C-17 and we'll fly them to our AFB in Italy.
Or, they can stay in Baghdad in that hotel, but if our commanders continue to observe activity that indicates the building is a tactical threat for massive mortor and chain gun ambush and espionage, we'll drop a 2000 lb bomb or two down the elevator shaft without prior warning or second thought.