Iraq as Qaeda Bait
For the yapping dogs of defeat:
The Left thinks Iraq is a killing field for Americans. Actually, it is a killing field for our enemies, at a very great but vitally important sacrifice. That reflects a grand strategy, tailored to the peculiar nature of the global terror threat.
You don’t shoot poisonous fire-ants with a BB gun; you just set an ant trap. Ant colonies are highly “distributed” biological societies, much like the world-wide web. They can’t be killed with a BB or a pressure hose; even pouring flaming gasoline on an ant hill won’t work.
Instead, you destroy ant colonies by attracting hungry ants to a chemical bait, and then kill them all in one small place. Ant traps work.
That’s the Bush strategy in Iraq. Al Qaeda isn’t centralized, with big cities or steel industries like Nazi Germany. So you can’t destroy the enemy by hunting them one by one. Rather, you bait a trap—provoke them to come to you, and make sure they don’t get out alive.
Iraq is a trap for Al Qaeda. Our mere presence in the heart of the Osama’s Caliphate-To-Be draws them like ants to sugar. General Petraeus just reported that
“...in the past 8 months, we have considerably reduced the areas in which Al Qaeda enjoyed sanctuary. We have also neutralized 5 media cells, detained the senior Iraqi leader of Al Qaeda-Iraq, and killed or captured nearly 100 other key leaders and some 2,500 rank-and-file fighters. Al Qaeda is certainly not defeated; however, it is off balance and we are pursuing its leaders and operators aggressively.”
Most of the Qaeda fighters come from Saudi Arabia and other breeding grounds. Now that the Sunni tribes are turning against them, they are more exposed and hunted than ever before. Wars are fluid and unpredictable, but no one can imagine that Al Qaeda is happy with its victories since 9/11.
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The fact is that we are drastically weakening or destroying our terror-supporting enemies: Saddam is dead, Al Qaeda is being degraded, the Taliban are hemorrhaging, and the Mullahs are surrounded.
Yet all the know-nothings think there is no strategy for Iraq.
There’s even a clever ironic twist in terms of domestic politics, because our liberals are constantly screaming Defeat! Defeat! Defeat! That message of weakness and vulnerability inspires more and more of our enemies to come to Iraq and join in the bloody slaughter of Americans.
But when they get there, they discover they’ve been suckered. It’s not the Americans who are taking a beating, but the jihadis who fell for the headlines and who listen to the American Left. So even our malicious liberals end up encouraging the enemy to go to Iraq to die.
As President Harry Truman did, George W. Bush recognized the stakes, set in place the right strategy, and was vilified by critics as stupid. But good poker players like Harry S. Truman and George W. Bush know that you don’t show your cards too soon, just to make people think you’re smart.
Read the whole thing.
Of course, this is the real reason the lefties want us to cut and run from Iraq.
FlyOnTheWall:
Wow. That was unexpected. Thanks. (I don't do gatorade, though.)...
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