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Make war, not arrests.(Letter to the editor)

National Review

| February 12, 2007 | Ramsay, Kent | COPYRIGHT 2007 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Although I appreciate Bing West's military service and am happy to assume his judgment is generally sound, I still found his article ("Do or Die in Iraq," Jan. 29) wanting. He calls the lack of an identification system for rooting out insurgents "the greatest technical failure of ...

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