Frederick Kagan, ever a mouthpiece of villainy, has proclaimed a Great Victory over Terror. In his latest screed in Weekly Standard, Kagan opines:
"We turned an imminent victory for Al Qaeda In Iraq into a humiliating defeat for them and thereby created an opportunity for further progress not only in Iraq, but also in the global struggle."
"We" have done no such thing. Al Qaeda has been driven away from the larger cities by Sunni condottieri, the 1920 Brigades, aka Hamas in Iraq. I shall dub them the New Sunni Friends, for they go by many names, and none of them wish to be tarred with the American brush. It is difficult to say who is running these operations, for there are many rump formations left over from Saddam’s old Iraqi Army, usually led by old Ba’athist officers, and they feud among each other. And not all of them are in Iraq: they are also to be found on Terrorist’s Row in Damascus with all the other Islamic mujahid organizations.
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