Excellent point. I was just thinking of the comparison to the Tet Offensive and those pictures of the US helicopters fleeing of the roof of the Hanoi US embassy.

Latesting news on the attacks on the green zone, the increasing battles with the Mahdi Militia, etc., here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042800619.html

This article is titled: A Storm of Sand and Shelling...(humm...I should clip it).

I think the Green Zone is a sitting duck and note it as interesting how an indigenous force uses the terrain and the weather while an occuping army fights against it.

Could you imagine the US Army planing actions around sandstorms? I read that in Vietnam the...

Excellent point. I was just thinking of the comparison to the Tet Offensive and those pictures of the US helicopters fleeing of the roof of the Hanoi US embassy.

Latesting news on the attacks on the green zone, the increasing battles with the Mahdi Militia, etc., here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/28/AR2008042800619.html

This article is titled: A Storm of Sand and Shelling...(humm...I should clip it).

I think the Green Zone is a sitting duck and note it as interesting how an indigenous force uses the terrain and the weather while an occuping army fights against it.

Could you imagine the US Army planing actions around sandstorms? I read that in Vietnam the Vietnamese quickly realized US actions, especially air strikes, always took a break for lunch.