Now an ex-general writes a book telling about how WMDs went to Syria before the war and despite the Hamas victory, Assad seems to be willing to negotiate. A year ago, if none of the other good things had happened, and I told you Assad was willing to negotiate, you would say I'm nuts. So what is it? Is it a confluence of events, do we finally have the drop on him? Did we need to clean up enough of the cesspool in Iraq before we could effectively put enough pressure on him? Something has changed over there and its more than subtle. The press hasn't caught on and never will......but this is really interesting news.
This is an astute and accurate observation -
As for the ex-Iraqi General......Don't put much stock in what he says specifically (though I'm not rushing to suggest everything he says isn't true)....but plenty is very suspect.
From the beginning our CIC has been clear. This was going to be a long war, a different kind of war.
It has and will be that. But make no mistake we are systematically defeating our enemies. Since Sept 11th our enemies have suffered one strategic defeat after another....we have not suffered one.
Our Intel capabilities continue to increase and from that we become more effective and efficient by the day.