Fallujah "captured"--now what?

[leftofthedial]

Wasn't Baghdad "captured" at one point too?

And all those other places where bombings, kidnappings, murders, and rocket attacks happen daily . . .

[FM Arouet666]

1. But what about all the bad guys

Where are Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Sheik Abdullah al-Janabi. Probably having donuts and coffee with Osama at Tora Bora. :evilgrin:

[leftofthedial]

5. Other than all the death and destruction

this was a pretty "nothing" of an operation

[FM Arouet666]

10. Other than killing a bunch more Iraqis and 20+ troops

Now what, the insurgents are going to disband and become Bushites? Or, maybe they will go to another city, maybe Mosul, and start the process all over again. :evilfrown:

[StClone]

2. Whack a mole

On a world stage.

[leftofthedial]

6. exactly

we'll be whacking moles forever

or as long as the "cannon fodder units" hold out

[billyoc]

3. Sure. Saigon too. n/t

[Cocoa]

4. Fallujah itself was also previously "pacified"

they put some bogus Iraqi force in place, back in April.

[Massacure]

7. Now the Iraqi Freedom Fighters will go to another city.

Like the others said, it's essentially a game of "Whack the Mole."

[Zynx]

8. We have to take it again in six months.

[elehhhhna]

9. Retake Mosul. Then retake Falluja. Rinse. Repeat.

[helnwhls]

11. the local NPR station

is playing a special about the freedom fighters in Poland fighting off the fascists in WWII. The special emphasizes how the rest of the world postured and flapped their lips while the Nazi's ground the citizens of Poland to a paste, to help suppress any flack from other countries in the region.

I thought it was rather ironic. I wonder if someone at NPR was trying to tell us something.

[Selatius]

12. It's just like Vietnam

We can capture cities, but then we'd have to move elsewhere to chase them down, and while we're chasing them up and down the countryside, others are gonna sneak back into the cities and launch ambushes against us and others working for us inside places we supposedly captured.

Those fighters acted the way guerrilla fighters are supposed to act. They didn't stick around in Fallujah when we sent in tanks, warplanes, gunships, and 10,000 troops. They left and went elsewhere to fight because they know they can't repulse that kind of firepower.