Cognitive Dissonance
Yesterday saw the news of a letter siezed from al Qaeda which seems to indicate that they've been having a hard time drumming up support in Iraq. Michael Totten (linked above) takes the letter as an encouraging sign, and I'm inclined to read it that way as well. I've only read excerpts, so it's hard to know what the whole thing says. Anyway: good news, neh?
It's hard to be too happy when every single day brings a new headline like this one: Truck bomb outside police station south of Baghdad kills dozens. (the AP updated headline adds, "Crowd Blames Americans.") There seems to have been a lot of high-casualty suicide bombings recently; how long until this stops being "a desperate ploy by the terrorists" and becomes "an ongoing campaign of successful mass murder by the terrorists"? I thought such events were supposed to subside in the wake of Hussein's capture.
I know that good comes with bad and war is inherently contemporaneously nonnarrative, but how are things GOING in Iraq?
Better than in Haiti, I hope. One of the United State's great experiments in imperial libervasion (that is, invade 'em, civilize 'em, trade with 'em) is now in full-blown civil war.
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Notice that the Baathist
Notice that the Baathist/Jihadi/scumbags have switched targets - aside from the roadside bombs, most of their energy seems to be aimed at Iraqi citizens rather than coalition military. This can't be a productive strategy for them in the long run.
I hope you're right. Unless
I hope you're right. Unless the Iraqi people decide they've had enough of the bombings and give in to... to... um... whatever it is the scumbags want.