Posted on 03/11/2007 11:53:15 PM PDT by jmc1969
There is always a moment during a raging battle when one side realizes that the field has been won, and the other side collapses in retreat and confusion. The curious thing about the Iraqi insurgency is that this moment has arrived, yet both the victors, in this case the Americans and the Iraqi government, and the losers, Al-Qaeda and the other jihadist groups, are reluctant to acknowledge it.
But make no mistake, the battle has been turned and we are witnessing the beginning of a jihadist meltdown.
Six months ago, many of the strategists behind the Sunni insurgency, faced with a more effective counterinsurgency effort, began to wonder just how long they could keep their momentum given their diminishing resources and talent. These strategists realized that their "resistance" would just peter out over time, as classical insurgencies tend to do. Some argued that, given one last push, the Americans would be sufficiently distressed to grab at cease-fire negotiations that would end with a hasty American withdrawal, leaving the insurgents to work things out with a much-weakened Iraqi government on more favorable terms.
Others, like Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, the organization founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, saw that there was no future for their vision of establishing a Talibanlike state should these negotiations with the Americans get underway, which would only serve to strengthen the hand of the rival insurgent factions that counsel this course.
This sense that they were running out of time compelled Al-Qaeda to take a bold initiative of declaring the establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq four months back, appointing the hitherto unknown Abu Omar al-Baghdadi as its head.
But this was a fatal strategic mistake for Al-Qaeda, a mistake that threatens to pull down all the other jihadist insurgent groups along with it.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
"But make no mistake, the battle has been turned and we are witnessing the beginning of a jihadist meltdown. "
The guy is obviously forgetting that the jihadists have very powerful allies who will soon come to their rescue - the DEMOCRATS!!
Gee, I wonder if their reluctance to acknowledge that they are losing has anything to do with our left controlled Congress and our left controlled media that keeps saying we are losing and we need to surrender and retreat.
Now if only the American press would report on this jihadist meltdown so that policymakers in Washington can rally the martial spirit to bring this battle to a crushing end for the enemy.
Love it!
wow
We all wish our press weren't a bunch of lying, traitorous, anti-American b*stards, but we realize they are and therefore we have to use other media for dissemination of facts.
"very powerful allies who will soon come to their rescue -"
SOON ? I beg to differ, what the liberals in this country have been doing for the past 2+ years borders on aiding and abetting.
Mean while, the Democrat leadership in Washington D.C. is busy figuring out all the ways that they can (cut and run) and hand the whole thing over to the Jihadists without damaging their so called careers in the process.
I just e-mailed the article to Sen. Mitch McConnell, with a note saying that since I'm a California Republican, I do not have competent representation in the Senate, so am writing to him instead.
"SOON ? I beg to differ, what the liberals in this country have been doing for the past 2+ years borders on aiding and abetting."
I stand corrected. You're 100% right. In fact, it doesn't "border", it is aiding and abetting!!
"Love it!"
You're obviously not a democrat!
We should email this to all the moveable Congressmen as well as Fox.
bookmark bump for later read
AAC
I liked what I read. But, it is an opinion piece though......
I just hope it is true.
From everything I know it is true. This article is damn near one of the best looks into the Iraq War from the prospective of the enemy that I have ever seen written on the web.
I hope this is true and not too optimistic!
What aren't you optimistic about?
We knew this was going to happen. We knew al-Qaeda fanatics would eventually clash with the Baathists and neo-Baathists, because their idology is so different.
What is the Islamic State in Iraq doing right now? It is burning Sunni and Shia homes in Iraq who refused to declare loyality to them. They are suicide bombing Sunni mosques in Iraq loyal to insurgents of the 1920 Revolutionary Bregades.
Actually that's true for someone who doesn't give a frogs watertight bunghole about what happens to Iraq as well.
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