Thx for the ping USF. Very interesting article.
"They've found that the terrorists for the most part are following a war-fighting doctrine articulated through Muhammad in the Quran, elaborated on in the hadiths, codified in Islamic or sharia law, and reinforced by recent interpretations or fatwahs."
Well, I'll be darned...it's tempting to say they could have learned all that by signing up to FR...but I'm convinced this isn't NEW news, they've known all that for a long time. I expected this 'change of attitude' as soon as Iraq was 'in the bag' so it does not surprise to read this NOW, on the day of voting in Iraq for the ratification of the Constitution.
I see this rather, not as an admittance of past stupidity, but as the Pentagon signalling 'we have rid ourselves of the threat from Saddam, now we are ready to start on the enemy at home.'