Arthur Silber: 'The Good Old Days'

“THE GOOD OLD DAYS”: BRINGING DEATH AND DESTRUCTION TO…WHEREVER

August 6th, 2005

As if to underscore every point made by the Iraq war veteran in his letter, we have this news story:

Some 1,000 U.S. Marines and Iraqi troops swept into the western town of Haqlaniyah early Friday morning, hunting for insurgents just south of an area where 20 Marines were killed this week.

Rumbling in with tanks, Humvees and amphibious assault vehicles—and accompanied by fighter jets and helicopter gunships—Marines from the 3rd battalion of the 2nd Marine Regiment pushed north along the western bank of the Euphrates River valley into the town as a company from the 25th Regiment shadowed its movements on the eastern flank of the river.