Comment Re:They should learn from history (Score 1) 396
Naah - of course the marines don't bulldoze them - they blow them up with ordinance. That's what they're trained to do. And not just schools, but homes and mosques. Ask your Marine friend who is going to teach in the school he built? And what takes precedence when the fighting blows up? If he can't take a reporter on a tour of his area of operations, he doesn't really have time to be building schools. We're not spending all this money on the wired and wireless battlefield to put computers with Ubuntu in libraries and schools. As in Viet Nam - we don't speak the language - so we're not much good at schools.
Today's CNN report on the fighting in Ramadi is a case in point. The marines will drop their hammers, pick up their weapons and wondrous webgear and go blow up some more infrastructure and probably kill and arrest a lot of innocent people. The "insurgents" are seen by Iraqis as patriots fighting off the occupier - just as the Viet Cong were. And just as Americans patriots would be if the U.S. were occupied. They want us out - just as the majority of the Vietnamese wanted us out. It is the nature of warfare that you destroy much more than you have time to build.
Today's CNN report on the fighting in Ramadi is a case in point. The marines will drop their hammers, pick up their weapons and wondrous webgear and go blow up some more infrastructure and probably kill and arrest a lot of innocent people. The "insurgents" are seen by Iraqis as patriots fighting off the occupier - just as the Viet Cong were. And just as Americans patriots would be if the U.S. were occupied. They want us out - just as the majority of the Vietnamese wanted us out. It is the nature of warfare that you destroy much more than you have time to build.
