Posted on 10/20/2007 10:09:11 AM PDT by shrinkermd
Should we declare victory over al Qaeda in the battle of Iraq?
The very question would have seemed proof of dementia only a few months ago, yet now some highly respected military officers, including the commander of Special Forces in Iraq, Gen. Stanley McCrystal, reportedly feel it is justified by the facts on the ground.
These people are not suggesting that the battle is over. They all insist that there is a lot of fighting ahead, and even those who believe that al Qaeda is crashing and burning in a death spiral on the Iraqi battlefields say that the surviving terrorists will still be able to kill coalition forces and Iraqis. But there is relative tranquility across vast areas of Iraq, even in places that had been all but given up for lost barely more than a year ago. It may well be that those who confidently declared the war definitively lost will have to reconsider.
Almost exactly 13 months ago, the top Marine intelligence officer in Iraq wrote that the grim situation in Anbar province would continue to deteriorate unless an additional division was sent in, along with substantial economic aid. Today, Marine leaders are musing openly about clearing out of Anbar, not because it is a lost cause, but because we have defeated al Qaeda there.
In Fallujah, enlisted marines have complained to an officer of my acquaintance: "There's nobody to shoot here, sir. If it's just going to be building schools and hospitals, that's what the Army is for, isn't it?"
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Hunt them, find them, kill them. The terrorists.
Dingy Harry, Pelosi, Murtha and Kucinich are in deep mourning over this turn of events.
and the rat-wing will do everything in their power to prevent victory...
Excellent post!
This news isn't surprising to those who deal in reality and logic, rather than hysteria.
Thanks, and AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!
I predict the next wave of suicide bombers will be from Berkeley and Ithaca.
“Victory Is Within Reach in Iraq”
If so, it’s thanks to a lot of guys who just refused to bend the
knee to thugs like Al Queda.
So, let’s remember one of them that even Mr. Ledeen memorialized
with one of his columns in The National Review a few years ago,
Fabrizio Quattrocchi:
“’I’ll show you how an Italian dies’: hero hostage”
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/16/1081998300849.html
LOL! Love the Marines but they can be smart asses.
Even after we have defeated the insurgency, we will need to maintain troops in Iraq to exercise our influence over the Mid-East. With troops based in a democratic Iraq, we can project our power throughout the region, creating democratic, pro-American states in the heart of the Islamic world. This is the way to end Islamo-Fascism and ensure a continuing supply of oil for American industry and consumers.
For some strange reason the folks on your list and their friends in the MSM have become suddenly silent on Iraq.
Except for the treasonous Peter Stark [D-Ca), its almost like they forgot how to pronounce the word!
God bless our brave troops and President Bush.
God Bless our troops for their sacrifice. Victory is theirs and they should be congratulated and the news shouted from the housetops.
I've been saying for more than three years that this would work, given time.
I've had FReepers call me all kinds of names for that, telling me I didn't know what I was talking about.
I wish I could remember who all of those people were.
It's almost time to gloat. ;-)
You don’t leave a military sitting around with nothing to do. They will create things to do. Hit on women, design pranks to pull off, run around like they own the place. Snap women’s bra straps. And be a general nuisance. They need orders and TDY orders to someplace else where there is work to be done.
Seems to me someone with a screen name and history like yours has his eyes on the far horizon!
Praise the Lord for the progress, and let’s keep on rooting and cheering for an unequivical victory SOON! But let’s not go off half-cocked and proclaim victory until it is truly in the bag.
Please do not forget “Mission Accomplished” and the hell GW has been put through by the lying libs’ twisting the meaning of that and ramming it down GW’s and OUR throats.
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