Falluja Delenda Est

Falluja residents returning home

Iraqis return to their homes in Falluja for the first time since a US-led assault left much of it in ruins. Full story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4119885.stm
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The reports on the conditions in Falluja, and of its 250,000 former residents stranded in the countryside -- many hovering in tents in freezing weather -- is nothing short of a major disaster. The city is a wreck. Three of its four water purification plants have been totally destroyed -- the one partially left is non-functional. Electricity is not available. Neither the insurgents nor mined buildings have been rooted out. Hundreds or more of corpses have been buried. One could not imagine how the residents returning -- when they are allowed to do so -- will feel about the Bush invasion and continuing occupation -- unless one were living in a comparably sized American city that had been similarly devastated? Ed Kent
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy as cited by Machiavelli in The Prince)