I waited all day. Nobody else seems to have seen it. MSNBC’s Carl Roschelle could do no better than to ponder how a suicide bomber made it into a military facility.
My conclusion? The insurgents are finished.
Yesterday I mentioned Tet 1968. It was the last gasp of the Viet Cong and NVA. In the US, the media and activists acclaimed it as a resounding defeat for US forces, and proof we needed to pull out.
The suicide bomber and havoc he created will be reported in much the same way. The politicos on the left are already doing it.
But consider for just a second the weapon used. Where else is it used? Why?
The jihadists are on their last legs in Iraq. They have been reduced to the point they must use the same weapon used by Hamas to take on our forces. They can do little else.
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Bunker Mulligan
Bill Quick convinced me that the election was over before the first vote for W was cast. He was right.
Now, Bunker Mulligan convinces me that the “insurgency” in Iraq is on its last legs.
In each case, the writer made too clear an argument to …
Trackback by Lexicography.com — December 22, 2004 @ 6:38 pm
Kevin McCullough dealt with it today as well…but it was late in the day…
Comment by ContrarianAlexis — December 22, 2004 @ 7:58 pm
Suicide Bomber responsible at Mosul
On the surface one might think that this is better than a direct rocket attack… but dig deeper and you realise that this was the worst possible cause of this tragedy.
When I first heard the reports from the Pentagon (at all the usual places) t…
Trackback by Murky View — December 23, 2004 @ 3:40 pm
Just like Fallujah was the end of the insurgency right?
Comment by Chris Alemany — December 23, 2004 @ 3:44 pm
Perhaps it was. Many of those who fled Fallujah went to Mosul. If they are reduced to using suicude bombers, they are in far worse shape than most of us imagined. This may be only an isolated incident of this type, but every tactic they’ve used thus far has failed in the long term. They continue to try new ways of attacking, but this one is used by those who are desperate.
Notice that the kidnappings and beheadings have ceased? Fewer and fewer IEDs?
it surely indicates the nearly unstoppable plunge in popularity of the US Occupation forces…
That’s a pretty strong conclusion. Unstoppable? Plunge in popularity? A single data point can’t extrapolate. You may be right that things will progress to something worse, but this evidence certainly doesn’t portend that.
Comment by Bunker — December 23, 2004 @ 6:03 pm