John Derbyshire had a satisfying "solution" to the Fallujah problem in yesterday's NR Corner: Given that these civilian contractors and their colleagues have been brought in to, among other things, get essential services like water, electricity, and sewerage working, I suggest that the Coalition authorities make sure that none of these utilities is available in the city of Fallujah until the bombers are handed over.

Embargo the city. No one in, no one out. Starve the city out if need be. The Coalition needs to stop thinking about what the liberal Western press will say about them, and begin thinking (taking the long view, and thinking about how insurrections have been suppressed throughout history) about what will work.

These atrocities yesterday were committed because the Saddam loyalists do not think (1.) the American soldiers will counteract with similar or necessary brutality, and (2.) that the American public can "take" such images and will push for an immediate abandonment of Iraq. Pull a page from General Sherman's book and make Fallujah howl. Apparently it is the only message they understand.

Or as Richard Brookhiser said, also on the Corner: Fallujahns are saying that Fallujah is the graveyard of Americans. Time it became the graveyard of some of those Fallujahns responsible for today's brutality.