Tell our dead servicemens' families about your "two yard loss". Deny all you want that things have headed south in the last 2 days, but the good guys are getting killed because we are sparing civilians. I've never said we won't win this thing, but excuse me for grieveing and being VERY concerned about our young being slaughtered in Iraq for the sake of people who may or may not want us there anyway. Don't be so callous about our dead.
I would have thought our nation would have learned the lesson of politicians meddling in military operations from Vietnam. Bush, Sr. didn't meddle with Schwarzkopf, and he won quickly and decisively. Bush, Jr. wants to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, so he's not allowing the military to bomb and prep the battlefield as they should, and the result is what we have. Granted, our losses thus far have been light, but to the individual families of those lost, they're far from light.
Screw the civilian losses, our guys should have the leeway to respond with overwhelming violence to any attack they come under, regardless of where the enemy is hiding. The Geneva Convention permits this...if an enemy is using a church, for example, as sanctuary from which to snipe at us, we are perfectly within our rights to reduce that church to rubble. To let politics get in the way of military operations is to endanger the lives of our troops unnecessarily, and to invite disaster. Military force, if it must be used, should be delivered with max manpower and max violence, so as to completely defeat and demoralize the enemy, and any civilian support he may have. If innocents are harmed, well, that's just a sad reality of war.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!