An Aversion To Good News
Well, good news coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan, anyway. Now, if America were to tuck tail and run away from the terrorists, they would be shouting with glee. After all, when the going gets tough, the cowards run…
The new counterinsurgency strategies of David Petraeus have shown remarkable initial success. USA Today reports that the US and Iraqi forces now employing the Baghdad security plan have captured thousands of insurgents as well as large numbers of Mahdi Army militia members — and Moqtada al-Sadr has yet to poke his head above ground: From Captain’s Quarters Blog
Coalition forces have detained about 700 members of the Mahdi Army, the largest Shiite militia in Baghdad, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Monday.
The militia, which is loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and has clashed with U.S. troops in the past, has mostly avoided a direct confrontation with American and Iraqi government forces, Gen. David Petraeus said in an interview with USA TODAY.
Some of the militia’s top leaders have left the capital, and Iraqi government officials are negotiating with al-Sadr’s political organization in an effort to disband the militia, Petraeus said.
Now why in the world would a group of theoretical Patriots STILL moniker that the war is already lost?
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