There’s a flurry of activity to find the “answer to Iraq”. I don’t think the answer relies on the results of a past election, or on an election two years from now. Yet much of the media analysis indicates that the solution must be found and completed in two years, or a wholesale withdrawal of American forces will be conducted in January, 2009.
For those who prefer defeat in Iraq to a campaign victory for an opposing party, this is good news. If we can push our short sighted political concerns aside, we see that any published timetable serves only to give hope to the enemy. An insurgency, without a timetable of its own, can outlast any conventional military force: hide, and win.
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In the absence of a questioning western media, it seems Eithiopia is making quick work of killing the Somalian terrorists. As can be expected, the bloggers on the left seems bent on looking disapprovingly at the war and saying “tsk – tsk”. As counterterrorism expert Daveed Gartenstein-Ross notes at the Counterterrorism Blog, seeking the specific names of the “alleged terrorists” is not needed. There is plenty of proof that the Somalian Islamic Courts Union (ICU) — the group that is fighting the Eithiopians — is producing propaganda that looks like it was written by al-Qaeda, and that they are “governing” the 17 terrorist training camps in Somalia. Gartenstein-Ross is an expert in these matters in more ways than one: he converted to Islam in his early twenties and ended up working for the head U.S. office of the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, an international Wahhabi charity that served as a major al-Qaeda financier. Prior to 9/11, Daveed left the Islamic faith for Christianity. You can read more of his bio Here!
What I’ll never understand is how the left will minimize the threat of a worldwide group with the stated intent of imposing Sharia Law while growing hysterical over a school district restoring the names “Christmas” and “Easter” to the former “winter” and “spring” breaks. Can the “offense” of hearing words associated with a religious holiday be compared to the kind of wholesale subjugation of human rights that happens under Sharia Law?
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