On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:14:30 -0500, DSK wrote:

Dave Hall wrote:
I'll tell you what, you convince the insurgents to stop cutting off
the heads of our people, and laying booby traps in corpses and in
vehicles, and maybe we'll back off on the "comfort tactics' we employ
on our prisoners.....


Aren't you forgetting something?

1- we invaded their country

Irrelevant.


2- we're supposed to be the good guys

Yea, but it's all relative.

3- we control what we do, not them


It seems to me, that we place ourselves a great tactical disadvantage
by steadfastly proclaiming to adhere to "the rules", while our enemy
freely flaunts its indifference to following "the rules".

Dave