LONDON -- This, we were promised, would be the most politically correct war in history. Harlan Ullman, a military analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, says the strategy of conquering Iraq by "shock and awe" bombing, was devised simply because this is the most unpopular war in history.
The aim, like Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg against Poland, was to devastate the Iraqi will and ability to defend itself without causing human loss of life. The destruction would be of the Iraqis' morale and ability to function as integral human beings, without actually killing them.
This strategy, and the American ability to implement it, has been acclaimed as a wholly new form of warfare: few dead, with fighting and killing over before Mrs. Ordinary has time to pick up a placard, and American triumph assured.