This will sound insensitive
But I don’t care. Enough is enough. Someone blow that shrine up already.
It may be noble to show respect for holy places (which Al-Sadr has shown no respect for) and that effort was a good thing. However, this has been going on for far too long.
And I don’t mean blow it up literally, but take control of it.
August 25th, 2004 at 9:13 am
The only reason not to simply start dropping 2000 pounders on the place is the politics/image of the whole thing. If they were holed up in Aub’s Rug Emporium, the place would have been flattened already.
Incidentally, if there are armed combatants (legal or otherwise) inside the place, it is not protected by the Geneva Convention. Not that the US has ever signed that document anyway.