Sirius: Saw on TV this morning that “violence is down by 80% in Iraq” and that attacks on supply convoys now involve a mere 1.5 %. If this is failure I would like to know what success looks like. The vast majority of the place is now almost undoubtedly far safer than those public housing areas in Chicago that Sen Obama likes so much.

To use the WWII analogy again, the Jihadist focus on the Tribal areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan is not some glorious offensive on their part, but rather more resembles Hitler’s vow to retreat to the Nazi’s impregnable National Redoubt and rebuild for their eventual return. Only the most die-hard Nazis ever put any credence in that claim, and very, very few of them at that.

I guess I could do some research and see if the Allies ever took the Nazi National Redoubt “threat” seriously, but I don’t recall hearing that we ever gave it any thought.