Let's blow up some religious sites

I'm sitting here pondering the situation in Iraq:  over 1,000 soldiers dead, beheading and kidnappings galore, cease-fires broken and new ones negotiated--just an all-around rough situation.

 

Why can't we just blow up Najaf?  Falujah?  wherever the terrorist strongholds are?  Who cares about these religious sites?  They would be important to save in normal circumstances, but when the terrorists just sit tight in there, counting on OUR honor to protect them, they've crossed the line.  I can respect another religion's sacred buildings, but I won't place their importance over the lives of my fellow citizens.  When respect for holy sites and winning a war are in conflict, I say win the war.  Is it that hard of a decision?  It may be our bombs that have to fall, but it won't be OUR fault when these holy sites are now dust; it will be the fault of the cowardly animals hiding from honorable combat, shielding themselves behind sacred walls and the bodies of women and children.

 

Our military is vastly superior to any on the face of the earth, yet we are struggling to win this war?  Why?  For one, guerrilla fighting in a civilian environment is extremely very difficult to combat, especially when the cameras are constantly rolling.  When you have a partisan media anticipating mistakes and setbacks, taking every opportunity to make your mission a failure--or at least quagmired--who count every single dead body they can get their calculators near, it makes it a little difficult to fight, to say the least.  War is not the place for multiculturalism.  Obviously, when half the battle is for the hearts and minds of the liberated, you can't go around blowing just anything up.  But I think we'd be a lot better off if our military didn't have to worry about "offending" the media, and could simply pursue victory.