A new Air Control policy?

[LawVol]

I seem to recall that this has been tried before. Yet another demonstration of the fact that lessons are usually encountered rather than learned.

Iraq: Easier to occupy from the air?
BY: Ali Al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service
08/06/2007


Many Iraqis believe the dramatic escalation in U.S. military use of air power is a sign of defeat for the occupation forces on the ground.

"Going back to air raids is an alarming sign of defeat," Salim Rahman, an Iraqi political analyst from Baghdad told IPS. "To bombard an area only means that it is in the hands of the enemy."

http://aimpoints.hq.af.mil/display.cfm?id=20437

One can only hope that this isn't the proposed post-surge solution...