[Dean's World] Dean: Black Five On Iraq

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Posted by Dean:
Black Five On Iraq
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1169809383.shtml


   Black Five notes:

     Last October, my sources began telling me about rumblings among the
     insurgent strategists suggesting that their murderous endeavor was
     about to run out of steam. This sense of fatigue began registering
     among mid-level insurgent commanders in late December, and it has
     devolved to the rank and file since then. The insurgents have begun
     to feel that the tide has turned against them. In many ways, the
     timing of this turnaround was inadvertent, coming at the height of
     political and bureaucratic mismanagement in Washington and Baghdad.
     A number of factors contributed to this turnaround, but most
     important was sustained, stay-the-course counterinsurgency
     pressure. At the end of the day, more insurgents were ending up
     dead or behind bars, which generated among them a sense of despair
     and a feeling that the insurgency was a dead end.

     The Washington-initiated "surge" will speed-up the ongoing process
     of defeating the insurgency. But one should not consider the surge
     responsible for the turnaround. The lesson to be learned is to keep
     killing the killers until they realize their fate.

   Read the whole thing [1]right here.

References

   1. http://www.blackfive.net/main/2007/01/does_anyone_els.html