response 78 of 122:

Jul 28 17:40 UTC 2003

re resp:76: I hardly assumed that our military "can do no wrong".  You 
are assuming they can do no right.

You are missing entirely that it's not likely the commanders in the 
region didn't realize the advantages and disadvantages of the choices 
they made.  In fact, they have more information than we do, even if we 
all read a couple of newspapers a day.  They're also reasonably 
intelligent.  Prejudices that people only go into the military if they 
are too stupid to contribute to society are wildly inaccurate.