MSNBC is running their “Question of the Day” and it is:
Baghdad Bombing
Do we need more troops in Iraq?
I would never have come up with that question. I can’t imagine the mindset that makes that leap.
Unless we put a soldier on every street corner in every town in Iraq, more troops add nothing to stopping this from happening. Even then, someone willing to blow himself up in the name of Allah could still drive up to any building and set off a bomb. How would more troops stop that?
“Well, they’d find out about the plan and stop it.” Really? “They’d be able to search more places and find the bomb-building equipment.” Did anyone find Timothy McVeigh’s?
Right now, terrorists are attacking Iraqis and foreigners, not the military. So, I guess there is some twisted logic that says if we place a soldier on every corner, every corner will be safe.
Acually it’s pretty smart of the terrorist to attack civilians. It shows them that the American Forces cannot protect them. It’s also hard to find the equipment used to make bombs. They are smart here, unlike Afghanistan. They cashe the stuff out in the woods, to were if it is found we have no one to arrest. Every now and then we get lucky. Right now we are in the middle of taking down an entire cell. We caught one guy, then he gave up a name, go him, so on and so on. Searching more areas is stupid. The insergeants live within the urban populous. We can search an entire sector and never find anything (refer to what I said earlier). You have to literaly catch them in the act or just being stupid.
Comment by birdie — March 20, 2004 @ 10:33 am