Winning
More positive news from Iraq:
This year, al Qaeda has seen Iraqis, especially Sunni Arab Iraqis, turn on them in growing numbers. The U.S. “Surge Offensive” begun earlier this year capitalized on that, and shut down more and more al Qaeda cells in Iraq. Worse, in the last few months, several key al Qaeda leaders were killed or captured, and many of their records, usually on laptop computers, were captured. U.S. forces have long had a drill for exploiting finds like this. The computer data is quickly gone over for names and locations of other al Qaeda operations, and within hours, more raids follow. Many American commanders are complaining of a shortage of al Qaeda targets to go after, which has made the Iranian backed Shia terrorist groups nervous enough to offer ceasefires and calls for negotiations.
As someone who vividly remembers the final decade of the Cold War, a “target-poor environment” ain’t exactly how the Army trained to fight.
Not that I’m complaining.
The signal for the war being marked by the intelligencia as being officially over will be when the left begins to say “There was never any doubt that America and its allies would win this somewhat hollow victory against al queda”.
This is how they came to see the end of the cold war, and it is how they will see the end of al-queda. I predict that you will see this sort of thing occur before next easter.
This will be followed quickly by calls from the Democrats for how to spend “the peace dividend”.
Now there’s a news report out about how cemetery workers in Iraq are hurting because the drop in violence means fewer burials.
So the administration changed tactics mid-war, and as a result, our soldiers are now fighting in a kind of war for which they haven