The sorry part of this fighting is that the jorurnalists and other organizations are imbedded with our troops for the purpose of gleaning the information they want to protray the battles for their political interests. This is a giant hinderance as they openly divulge every aspect of the operational methods that are used or are in the planning to be employed against the enemy. And they do it with no regard for the lifes of our men. If they know when and where your going to be it assists the terrorists in planting bombs and booby traps. If you recall a short while back the media mainly only reported on the bad things happening as it was fodder for the anti-war advocates. It has seemed to slow since the political tables have turned some-what on the medias agendas. Anyways, we will never win a war again if we maintain an attitude that war must be fought without harming anyone, or destroying their economy, or causing daily hardships on the general populace. Thats axactly why we didn't win the Vietnam war and never would have. We got out because we didn't have a choice. Same with Iraq and the Somalia fiasco. The days of "Step across that line and your dead" are gone. I was in Nam, but, if I had it to do over I'd likely tell them now to stick it if they weren't going to go all out to end it fast and hard and raze the whole damn country doin it. m2c