Hanson mail

Victor Davis Hanson's latest responses to mail includes this little exchange:

Do you agree with the concept of limiting collateral damage in Iraq?

Hanson: In principle, of course; but when you have NGOs and the UN sending in lists of off-limits targets in Iraq before the war even started, you might just send mixed messages that we are predictable and tentative, rather than crazy and unpredictable--not good at all in a war. There are older tragic rules of war that the new postmodern, globalized protocols sometimes don't take account of.

Amen, Professor Hanson. Now use those connections and tell it to the president.