Missives from the Hinterlands

This morning I awoke to a military commander stating that his troops had "hit farmhouses and other structures with 500 and 1000 lbs. bombs." The structures were "known to house or recently have housed insurgents." It took me a second to realize that I was hearing news from Iraq and not the West Bank. My god, if Vietnam is too remote for our current "leaders" to remember, can't they look a few hundred miles to the west and see how well such tactics are currently suppressing guerrilla warfare?

This would be comical if real people weren't dying daily.