Quote Originally Posted by tequila View Post
I think your faith in the competence of our adversaries is somewhat amusing.
I would not put it that way. There is nothing amusing about their extreme competence, resilience, adaptability, and ruthlessness.

I do not immediately discount friendly actions, perceived to be somewhere on the over-reaction to atrocity scale, as innocent by default until proven guilty. There certainly are too many conspiracy theories inflating the enemies' all-pervasive cunningness. But there are also too many folks prone to knee-jerk condemn the man in the arena. Just about anything is possible these days, and one should not leap to conclusions.