As I see it, if the COW forces have an area under control, then keeping order in the area should be the next objective, besides rooting out any remaining resistance. The people should be taken care of physically (food, water, the sick and injured treated, etc.), and they need to be protected.
And that involves property as well. I mean, we're not just talking
tables here. I would hate to see something along the lines of the 1968 riots here in the States, where people virtually destroyed their own areas, and rebuilding is either nonexistant or just taking shape (e.g. DC's U Street corridor). Or Los Angeles 1992.
I don't know what it's like not to have freedom...so I can't even begin to imagine how most of Iraq is feeling. And I'd want to celebrate and go apeshit probably...but there simply has to be some order. Hopefully COW forces will know when to say when before things get too out of control.
I don't think what I said was dumb at all.