A strong hold of what ?.

You claim that there is a strong-hold of congregational alignments' against the occupation of what is perceived, by the general population of the land, of the opposing and occupying forces'.

By attacking and forcing a siege, of what, I believe can be handle with a curtain amount of humanity and planing, you will by reinforcing the doubts' and suspicions' of the native people.

Increasing fear, and establishing more rouges' to join the bandwagon of the ( what you claim to be) An insurgency against the established occupation.

How can you declare war on a small town, of what only a very few minority, will have participated in warfare at the very early stage's of the attacks' by our/your forcements' of hounding out, the supposedly, head of the insurgents'.

Now you are going to send the force in, to attack a majority of civilians' of who will no doubt, feel at threat of their lives' and will have little or no understanding of what will be happening, and will then have no choice but to join in , in any strikes' that the occupying force will carry out.

We have to resolve to other means' of looking for any loose insurgents', of most have integrated back into the society.

Are you about to start another war?, or haven't you got enough on your hands', already, with the mistakes' that have taken place in other Muslim lands'.

Of what has enviably - failed.