This is the kind of war story I like to read:
U.S. warplanes attacked militia positions at sunset near the city’s ancient Shi’ite Muslim cemetery and fighting raged for a sixth consecutive day between marines and gunmen loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, witnesses said.Plumes of smoke rose from the cemetery, where Sadr’s Mehdi Army have dug in and stored caches of weapons. Marines have thrown a tight cordon around the cemetery and the Imam Ali Shrine but have yet to make a full assault on fighters holed up in the sites, a move that would enrage Iraq’s majority Shi’ites
The next step is to make the “full assault.” Smoke them out, shoot them out, whatever it takes. We have the might, but do we have the will?
