Ba’athists Done Gone Home
The Captain had this interesting tidbit while he discussed how the enemy is funding their operations. (Rob covered that here.)
The Ba’athists have mostly left the field in Iraq, convinced that they will not return to power. Their assets have been successfully frozen, and the remainder of their liquid funds now support them in comfortable lifestyles rather than paramilitary attempts to restore the Ba’athist regime. The insurgencies operating in Iraq now mostly consist of radical Islamists or sectarian militias, the kind of terrorists we want to face and beat in their territory rather than ours.
It looks like we are not fighting what we might call “Iraqi nationalists.” We are fighting the “army” of the global Jihad. I think it’s for the better that we’ve sucked the worldwide terrorists into Iraq to fight us there.
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