US Military Decides They Must Destroy Iraq To Save It
Via Global Guerrillas:
[The US military] announced yesterday that it had bombed (with precision strikes) eight bridges across the Euphrates River inside western Iraq to stop insurgents from using them. As the US army spokesman said: “One of the vulnerabilities of this insurgency is freedom of movement. We took out portions of these bridges to deny terrorists, foreign fighters and insurgents the capability to cross north to south or south to north across the Euphrates River.”
Read further for Martin van Creveld’s biting, dead-on critique of this operation. I’m one of the people who has sometimes believed that, though we had very little business being there in the first place, we needed to stay in Iraq for it to have any hope of getting better. Now I’m almost certain that we are the biggest problem.
