re: #353 Athos

The looting happened within the first few days of the collapse, and it ended fairly quickly as well. We should have expected it, because looting is what that society does, but nobody seems to have anticipate it. The US generals on the ground did not want to order US troops to stop it because it suddenly occurred to them they had a few thousand US troops inside a city of 5 million Arabs, with an unsecured supply line several hundred miles long.