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I still think we are too nice as a country, we are afraid of bombing because it might cause a bad reaction in the press, we apparently shouldn't bother taking prisoners anymore because everyone outside an many inside the USA believe the detainees word as gospel. We enter these wars, like Vietnam, with an idea that we are the good guys and will use the rule book to make war clean but that seems an impossible task especially in todays world. We put ourselves at a distint disadvantage by doing so. When the opponent plays dirty the rule book should be thrown out the window. Our number one concern should be for our troops in the field first as they accomplish the mission, worry about the collateral damage after the fact.



Right, when they take prisoners, they chop their heads off. I think an escalation of hostilities is in order.
If you'll recall (I am a history buff) the Germans, who were a highly advanced first world country at the outset of WW II, began all out war by firebombing Coventry. However, there was shock and horror at the British and Americans when Dresden was burned so badly that the Elbe boiled.
That shock and horror was tempered by the fact that, oh yeah, the defeated Germans were the bad guys. The U.S. rebuilt the continent (even shitty France) and now we're faced with a repeat of history in the Middle East.
No nation has ever done so much to fight their wars in accordance with the Geneva Convention, but the bottom line is that you cannot defeat pure evil whilst granting it an unanswered tactical advantage. Bitches