[kattracks]

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[Ranger]

This strategy makes some sense if you don't care a whit about your civilian population and wish to hide behind them or hold them hostage.

It makes good headlines and PR which is Saddam's first line of defense.

As to a military strategy, I'd equate it to a hunter setting a big bear trap on his front porch and then daring the bears to come and step in it.

[backhoe]

katt, I hear a lot of talk about how this allegedly novel concept of "urban warfare" is going to be our undoing, and I have a very simple solution for it.

Show America the truth...

Let's have the TV networks broadcast, 24/7, for about 2 weeks, all the films of people leaping, falling, or being blown out of the Towers...

...all those "bags of blood"- that weren't bags at all, but the piteous wreckage that happens when a flesh & blood person hits cement at terminal velocity...

...do that, and Americans won't be bothered much by "collateral damage" to our enemies.