A good line (bon mot?) but in 1944 the Resistance drove the 2nd SS Pz Div absolutely ape. Finally the Nazis overcame resistance, but with methods we'd not use.
Remember, Iraq isn't resisting. Some people are -- people who had it a lot better in the status quo ante, and they're furious. But they're weak. Suicide bombing is not only a technique of fanatics, it's a technique of those who are so weak as to be militarily irrelevant -- it's the 2-year-old's tantrum of warfare. Incidents like this especially... the "great martyr" accomplished nothing but making himself a dead laughingstock. If we publicize that, the next "martyr" may decide to open a video shop instead.
This story by Tara Copp of Scripps-Howard has probably been put on FR somewhere, but it's a side of the Iraq war the Times and the Post don't see. With people like the ones in this article (one of whom worked with me in another theater, earlier in the war) who make it better for good Iraqis, and people like Ross, who make things unsat for bad Iraqis, things are looking up.
By the way, I didn't get invited to the White House iftar dinner that closed Ramadan, and damned if I don't recall the big al-Qaeda attack in the USA that was supposed to happen during that month, either.
The best the Iraqi (and Islamist, because he might not have been Iraqi) enemy can put forward is the guy who's now a DNA sample playing hard-to-get somewhere in that crater. The best we can put forward is just plain better. There it is.
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