Mission Not Accomplished

Theirs, that is.

Iraq’s most feared terror leader told insurgents in an audiotape found Monday on an Islamic Web site that the Americans will move on other guerrilla strongholds after Fallujah and urged the guerrillas to strike first.

The speaker, identified as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — the man whose followers are blamed for deadly bombings and the beheadings of foreign hostages — said [blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda]

Feared by whom? A coward who can't stand and face the "martyr's death" at the hands of the "infidel Americans," but lets his more stupid followers do it? A coward who murders unarmed foreigners and his more reasonable kinsmen to boot? Whatever.

(Thanks to Jeff Quinton)

Comments

[Carridine]

Concur yr analysis!

DLoaded the Drudge-noted footage from the frontlines... awesome.

Read, saw pix of the charnel-houses of the terrorists... ugly.

Read firsthand reports by abused Iraqis, abused at the terrorists' hands...

Now HOW do we rid America of that terrorist Fifth Column, the media Fourth Estate?

[Christopher Cross]

Wait, the 5th Column, 4th Estate, might there be a 3rd way?

I'm confused...

[torchy]

Belmont Club has an interesting analysis of the Sunni insurgency of Zarqawi and former Baathists. Their loss of sanctuary in Fallujah, Ramadi, etc and the lines of communication and supply between these areas will eventually choke the insurgency down to a containable level that will allow the January elections to proceed. Their days as an effective insugency are numbered and desperate.

[joel]

Gads.

Could we be winning? Can't be. This is Vietnam, so, that's impossible. Just ask any American reporter.

I suppose it is beyond the imagination of any of those people to think that one day the people who comprise the insurgency will just give up. You know, admitting defeat and getting on with other pursuits? After all, if they lose men, supplies,and prestige at this rate, it might get difficult to recruit new members.

Well, one thing is clear. The volunteer army is a success beyond anything imagined when the draft was ended.

Comparing the action of the USA in Afghanistan and Iraq to the inaction of the UN in the Sudan must be very painful to USA haters. I suppose that accounts for their vitriol.