In article . com,
"Eric in North TX" wrote:

This glass thing is so messy. Just turn it into a parking lot and
send in the Marines to paint the stripes. This could be done with
conventional weapons.

Apparently not, we hit Afghanistan with our best shot, and we
discovered something interesting; it is really hard to bomb people
living in the stone age back into the stone age.

Afghan was hardly our best shot from a kill them all and let god
sort them out kinda policy. We tried to keep a lot of it one piece. See
what happens when we try to finesse thigns?