Apparently I'm not very good at taking intentionally vague things the way I want to. How exactly are our hands tied tactically? Is it along the lines that we can't bomb Fallujah into a pile of rubble and corpses, or are we envisioning something more like the helicopter gunner from Full Metal Jacket yelling "get you some" as he indiscriminately mows down fleeing gooks?
As far as I'm concerned it's a damned good thing we see our hands as tied, it shows we have at least a marginal respect for life, can make an at least marginal distinction that all Iraqis are not 'the enemy' and it makes us look like some of us might actually believe we are there to give them something better than they had.
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