http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/27/judge-rules-enemy-combatants/
“Judge rules on ‘enemy combatants’”
Tom Ramstack
Monday, October 27, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A federal judge on Monday issued a ruling that limits the number of terrorism suspects being detained at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who can face trial as enemy combatants.
U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon ruled that the term “enemy combatant” applies only to detainees who are accused of “supporting Taliban or al Qaeda forces” in battle against the U.S.”
This is only the tip of the iceberg. We sent people on the ground to get things too. The results of that might bring more surgical strikes.
Second - the fact that we are now reaching into Syria indicates that we have the ‘downstream’ areas pretty well cleaned up and are in the endgame phase in shutting down the insurgency enough to pass off to the Iraqi’s IMHO.