It took eight months after the allies landed at Normandy to get to Berlin. It's incredible that in six days, US/UK forces have made it to suburban Baghdad. I have been wondering what happens now. Strategically, there seem to be two options. Coaliition forces could move into Baghdad. This would mean street fight, going building by building, and block by block, through a city of five million. Doubtless this would mean casualties among our soldiers, and doubtless civilian casualties among the Iraqis. Or, Coalition forces could lay seige to the city. This would be a nightmare. The people of Baghdad would suffer terribly, and it would be protracted, and support for the war in the UK and here in the U.S. would flag.

But, yesterday at the gym, while I was doing shoulder presses, I was watching CNN. It seems that Republican Guard units are doing sorties out of Baghdad into the desert, and meeting quick defeat at the hands of Coalition forces. If this continues, it could make things much much much easier.

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