[freema]

Good thread, good posts.

[jazusamo]

Attention Murtha, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the defeatist RATS, read it and weep!

[4woodenboats]

When al Qaeda could not, in 2007, exercise any real control over the parts of Iraq they claimed as part of the new Islamic State, it was the last straw. The key supporters, battered by increasingly effective American and Iraqi attacks, dropped their support for al Qaeda, and the terrorist organization got stomped to bits by the "surge offensive" of last year. The final insult was delivered by the former Iraqi Sunni Arab allies, who quickly switched sides, and sometimes even worked with the Americans (more so than the Shia dominated Iraqi security forces) to hunt down and kill al Qaeda operators.

This is why I love being on your ping list, freema ~ it's just so...cheerful ;~)

[Marine_Uncle]

A little problem we as well as they have is they have no alternatives other then fighting for some ill conceived notion they are doing the bidding of some statue saved from damaged some fifteen hundred years back. Their taught a one way ticket to hell and have little option within their mind set to change their way of thinking. Many of them have so little to live for anyway. That is at the core of the problem. Islam and the cultures they live in prevent them from going the way of free thinkers. They are locked into a mode that prevents them from seeking the truths of their origins and how badly they where manipulated by recent historical events (WWII then lead by the nose by Russia) for the most part.
So thought I welcome this type reporting, I would hold my judgement as to the final outcome. I would venture many of these clowns would love to take part in joining some team that would set off an atomic bomb in some US city for instance.