I think there is an argument to be made to simply mow these pricks down as they move their convoy and forces around Iraqi territory. Just send in some munitions and eradicate massive numbers of them.
in a sane world/US gubmint, both options are doable, *IF* we were still strong enuff PC-wise to tell the world to get bent if they dont like it, or if they try to follow our lead using the big weapons...
we dont even dare hit the armies and crush their ability to fight, dating back to before the 'road of death' in papa bush's spanking of iraq...we allowed a large part of his armies go home to fight another day, because we didnt want the world to think we were bullies [spit]...
we cant nuke their civilian populations and wont commit wholesale slaughter of their men-wimmi&children at arms, so why in hell spend a drop of our blood there, when eventually theyll be here anyway ???
like i said before, our policies/actions have all been, by design, meant to fail, securing the rise of the muzz power base to finally eradicate the joos and any other infidels in the general area...
*if* they succeed, then ultimately theyll need to kill the rest of us, either before or after they return to killing each other as the untrue version of mo-ham-head-eans [piss & bacon be upon them]...
Gilbo, I think you answer your own question.
“...so why in hell spend a drop of our blood there, when eventually theyll be here anyway ???”
That’s why we spill drops of our blood.
Look at Iraq before our last military action there.
Look at it prior to this recent surge.
Which situation was more anti-U.S.?
Right now, we’re doing more harm to our cause that we could possibly do any other way.
We are abandoning those who took us at our word, that we would help them when they needed us.
Now those people who trusted us are being beheaded.
By just sitting back and watching, we are proving that we couldn’t be trusted then, now, or in the future.
Is that how we wind hearts and minds?
No.
This president, and sadly some on our own side are undermining our efforts to make this a safer world.