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This appeal for America to act less civilized will offend some; but it does offer a convincing explanation for the inner logic of America's tough new foreign policy.

If we waged war without rules, things can get quite ugly - not only for our enemies, but also for our own troops. Apart from being too civilized, the reason we don't get down and dirty is that our tolerance for casualties is very low. The victories in Iraq and Afghanistan have relied heavily on the fact that the populations of those countries for the most part welcome us as liberators. The reason we won't extend the war to other parts of the Islamic world is that their populations won't be quite as friendly, and even if we kill millions of them with our superior firepower, we'll be faced with guerilla combat orders of magnitude greater than what's taking place in Iraq.

Wrong, newbie. I don't care if they like us, and are friendly. I just require that they fear us, and like the children they are, behave.

/john

What you are saying is correct, but it is because we wish to do the least harm to get the most good. If the Iraqi's did not respond so positively to being freed, we would be a whole lot rougher.

If they did use WMD to any great effect inside Americas borders we would nuke them into the stone age, not try to rebuild their economy.

After all, once the area was sterilized, few other nations could build oil drilling robots that were radiation resistant...