strange tactics

Rating: Null/10 (15 September 2003)

As the helicopters are arriving they are already taking fire. Certainly, when they are on the roof they are under heavy fire and taking casualties. Surely, the machine-gunners in the choppers should have blown away the snipers on the buildings opposite. The pilots could have told the Colonel where the bulk of the fire was coming from and he could have told them to make a sweep a la "Black Hawk Down"-end of problem and quite justifiable afterward I would have thought. Definitely easier to wriggle out of than wasting 83 civilians.