This doesn’t change my opinion on the current status of America’s position in Iraq, but this story strikes me as one of the most disgusting stories I’ve seen in quite some time:
BAGHDAD, March 20 ? Insurgents detonated a bomb in a car with two children in it after using the children as decoys to get through a military checkpoint in Baghdad, an American general said Tuesday.
Speaking at a news briefing at the Pentagon, Maj. Gen. Michael Barbaro, deputy director for regional operations at the Joint Staff, said American soldiers had stopped the car at the checkpoint but had allowed it to pass after seeing the two children in the back seat.
It’s horrible, it’s disgusting. But it also raises a question.
When you’re fighting an enemy willing to use tactics like this, how can you realistically say that victory, in the way that we traditionally understand it, is possible ?
