LA_MERC_Dirge
March 25th, 2003, 01:12 PM
"It has taken less than a week to reach Baghdad, where the Republican Guards will stand and fight, at least for a while. They will surround themselves with civilian hostages, fake surrenders and kill our men whenever and however they can. Now is the time and this is the place for "shock and awe." Let them sit there for a few days, under an unrelenting bombardment. There will be some civilians killed, but the blood of those civilians will be on Saddam's hands, not ours. I--for one--am unwilling to pay the butcher's bill that could result from much infantry and some armor assaulting the well-dug-in Republican Guard, manning positions they have had a decade to prepare. That sort of idiocy went out with the battles of Verdun, and the Marne, didn't it? We must make sure it did. With apologies to the Bard: cry havoc, and let loose the dogs of air war. For a few days, at least. And for heaven's sake, knock that damned TV station off the air."
-Jed Babbin, National Review Online
-Jed Babbin, National Review Online