A lesson in there, somewhere
A couple of articles caught my eye today while reading the news and my blogrollees. From Buttle’s World which pointed me to Talisman Gate who writes that Al Qeada admits that it’s beat in Iraq;
A prolific jihadist sympathizer has posted an ‘explosive’ study on one of the main jihadist websites in which he laments the dire situation that the mujaheddin find themselves in Iraq by citing the steep drop in the number of insurgent operations conducted by the various jihadist groups, most notably Al-Qaeda’s 94 percent decline in operational ability over the last 12 months when only a year and half ago Al-Qaeda accounted for 60 percent of all jihadist activity!
He includes a chart that needs no translation;
Well, that was from last Thursday.
This is from today’s McClatchey newspapers under the headline Iraqi Troops Welcomed in Sadr City for First Time;
Iraqi security forces entered Baghdad ‘s Sadr City in large numbers on Tuesday for the first time since followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al Sadr agreed two weeks ago to let them in.
No U.S. troops accompanied the Iraqi forces. The agreement specifically barred Americans from entering the Shiite Muslim enclave.
In a symbolic gesture, representatives of Sadr and a group of tribal sheiks met the Iraqi forces with a copy of the Quran, the Islamic holy book, to welcome their presence into the city.
Today I read this from CNN;
The commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia’s Force 47 told reporters in Bogota Monday — a day after surrendering — that “the solution is not through war. There must be dialogue.”
Nelly Avila Moreno, center, alias Karina, is escorted by soldiers after surrendering.
Nelly Avila Moreno, 45, whose nom de guerre was Karina, said she and her longtime male companion made the decision jointly to abandon the FARC group, based in the jungle, at 5 a.m. Sunday.
She said pressure from Colombian soldiers had been key to their decision, and she called on her fellow rebels to follow her example.
So I guess there can be victories against terrorists by keeping pressure on them and taking the war to them. I don’t expect the word to be broadcast across the country, but there’s still a lesson in there if anyone is willing to look for it.
Category: Foreign Policy, Politics, Terror War
We have this marxist dictator in our hemisphere named Hugo Chavez who supports the actions of the terrorists of FARC. Several prominent lefties have publicly chosen to align themselves with him and “hammed it up” in photo-ops with the guy. Chavez is not about freedom, he’s about marxist control!
I know a guy who met Mussolini while living in Italy as an exchange student before WWII started. He actually got a chance to stand with Il Duce during a parade where it seemed like an endless stream of military troops and vehicles passed the podium in muster… Mussolini told my friend that it was the same group of troops, circling around town and marching back through again!
Mussolini was a good one for pulling off illusions. It’s called propaganda. So is Chavez and those who are aligning themselves with him. How soon they forget what Fidel Castro did to Cuba! How quickly they excuse the words of Ahmadinejad.