Accidentally deleted a paragraph, I see. As far as your comparison between LA and Iraq, DC, I can see if your idea was to arrest people who broke curfew, give them a chance to explain themselves, ala innocent until proven guilty, then I would have no problem with your idea. This is what happened in LA and it did help to eliminate the ones who were causing the problems, but also spared any people who may have innocently been breaking curfew.
Your idea to shoot anyone on the street is a lot different than what happened in LA, so the comparison is a pretty weak one. How would you like it if a family member of yours was out after curfew and turned up dead? What if there had been a car accident in the family and one of your family members felt such a strong urge to get to a church and pray for the individual who was hurt, only to get shot to death on the front steps by a rogue cop?
Fair point Jimmy. I understand. And as much as I would like to see something like that implimented without having to actually shoot someone, it would be a very hard thing to do in Iraq. How many stories have we heard where the Soldiers have approached a person or people, giving them the benefit of the doubt that they were innocents, only to get blown up because those people turned out to be suicide bombing terrorists? That's a very tough call to make. A call that I really would not want to be in a position to make.
Ronnie, you make some really good points in your post also. Great stuff.
Don Cardi
