Which did EXACTLY what they were supposed to do. Make sure that the citizens of that country KNEW they were beaten and acted as such when we finally rolled through and won.

If only war hadn’t become “civilized” I’m sure that the war in Iraq would be OVER now.

Instead of a few air strikes, and YEARS of “insurgents”, we should have just carpet bombed EVERY SINGLE major city into dust.

Then when we declared the war over the survivors would ACT like the wat was over. And if not, well pull back and start BOMBING again. The same thing happened several times in WWII. A resistance would spring up, we’d pull out, slap down a bit of “fire for effect” and roll back in.

It’s strange how TOTAL OVERWHELMING force will stop insurgents.

And I’m sure the daily footage of smoldering Iraq cities would make the REST of the problem countries over there think twice about trying something stupid in the near future.

But oh well, the lives of “innocent” civilians helping the enemy kill, are more important than our OWN innocents…

I say we take a page out of their Koran, the part that states there ARE no innocents in war.

1)deny the Germans territory which could be used for launches
2)conduct tactical air strikes against the launch facilities, even though these were located in friendly-but-occupied-Holland
3)conduct massive air attacks on German cities–these were accurately described by one Luftwaffe general as “annihilation raids.”

However, the difference between S’derot and Ashkelon and WW2 London is that the Brits were not being told by their government that nothing would be done for their defense. London had barrage balloons, AA guns, radar-aimed missiles and guns, fortified shelters, fortified schools plus the Underground for civil defense. S’derot and Ashkelon have nothing and have been told that they will get nothing.

I only hope that the Olmert government topples before its incompetence succeeds in toppling Israel.

chsw

While a lot of children and some critical facilities were moved north to get them out of range, a general evacuation was never an option. Then in England, or now in Israel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain

Battle of Britain is the name given to the strategic effort by the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF) derived from a speech made by Winston Churchill, “The Battle of France is over. I expect the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization… The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war… Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour’” speaking in the House of Commons (18 June 1940)[7].

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British historians date the battle from 10 July to 31 October 1940, which represented the most intense period of daylight bombing. German historians usually place the beginning of the battle in mid-August 1940 and end it in May 1941, on the withdrawal of the bomber units in preparation for the attack on the USSR.

But as Eric Hoffer pointed out long ago, of all the peoples of the world only the Jews are expected to act like Christians.