The response to Fallujah

The response to the atrocity at Fallujah is going to be very interesting. Our military seems to be handling it in exactly the right way so far.

I'm extremely interested in how this will be handled. I want to see justice done, but even more because it's such an interesting military scenario (it will require the type of urban combat our marines have been preparing for), and because it has very wide implications for so many things. Most importantly, it will show how any future attacks like these can be expected to be responded to.

More from Donald Sensing (also read what he wrote earlier).

Also, I'd like to contrast this great post by Ali (via LGF), who lives in Iraq, with this sick post over at the Daily Kos (via LGF).

Update: this is a great article about how even Iraqis who hate America are disgusted by the barbarity of what took place:

"This is a bad advertisement for everything we stand for," said Muhammad Khalifa, a spare parts trader who closed his shop during the disturbance in a sign of disgust. "We may hate Americans. We may hate them with all our hearts. But all men are creatures of God."

What does that say about the character of the people at the Daily Kos?

Update: Roger L. Simon quoting Christopher Hitchens (reg req)

Fallujah is a reminder, not just of what Saddamism looks like, or of what the future might look like if we fail, but of what the future held before the Coalition took a hand.

Update: Markos Zuniga at the Daily Kos has removed his old post and offered a backtracking apology. I would have respected his apology if he hadn't also removed his original content. Now I think I respect him even less.

Update: Glenn Reynolds has a lot more, as well as a link to this screenshot of what the Kos page looked like before Zuniga altered it.

Update: Belmont Club has a great update on the situation and rehearses some possible military strategy.

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edited: 2004-04-03 17:08 (utc-5)