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The whole region is a problem. The sooner we quit playing PC games and fight this war as a war, the sooner it will be finished to our liking. Then and only then can Bush, or whoever is in charge at that time, truly declare "Mission Accomplished"

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

I hear you, but even in a war you have a code of to respect, and that's no PC at all. A soldier is not supposed to loot, rape, or kill random civilians. He is someone you're supposed to look up at, even when you're the citizen of the country he's occupying. His strength comes not only from his training, but from his moral virtues.

US troops in WW2 did not wage a PC war. And yet they treated civilians well, they treated their prisoners with respect, and sometimes even protected collaborators from public lynching. When civilian targets were given to US and British bombing squadrons like in Dresden, there were many critics among the military and political leaders. I don't have the impression that code of conduct weakened their resolve, lowered their efficiency, or preventing them from defeating the standing (and sometimes outstanding) armies and navies from three industrialized major powers.