Now imagine yourself in combat in Fallujah.

These enemy tactics make the interaction with civilians very difficult:

1. Non-uniformed enemy. They don't wear ANY insignia.
   
2. Weapons Caches. They don't have a concept of a "personal" weapon like we do. They don't check rifles out from the armorer and they don't get an Article 15 for losing it. They grab a weapon from their cache, fire on US soldiers, run, drop it back in the cache and go have sandwich.
   
3. Actively use women and children as shields from which to fire weapons.

That being said, our soldiers are trained from day one: "You are supposed to do the difficult." I guess this scenario means that it's just MORE difficult than before.

But maybe we, in all our moral superiority, can cut them just a little slack.