{"id":1756,"date":"2008-05-28T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2008-06-04T15:46:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T19:46:19","slug":"really-bad-news-for-the-surrender-crats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1756","title":{"rendered":"Really Bad News for the Surrender-crats!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really Bad News for the Surrender-crats!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not safer.\u201d Barack Obama<\/p>\n

The Strategy Page<\/a>, as usual, has an excellent piece up.<\/p>\n

Today, al Qaeda has been shattered, with most of its leadership and foot soldiers dead, captured or moved from Iraq. As a result, al Qaeda attacks have declined more than 90 percent. Worse, most of their Iraqi Sunni Arab allies have turned on them, or simply quit. This “betrayal” is handled carefully on the terrorist web sites, for it is seen as both shameful, and perhaps recoverable.
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\nWhen al Qaeda could not, in 2007, exercise any real control over the parts of Iraq they claimed as part of the new Islamic State, it was the last straw. The key supporters, battered by increasingly effective American and Iraqi attacks, dropped their support for al Qaeda, and the terrorist organization got stomped to bits by the “surge offensive” of last year. The final insult was delivered by the former Iraqi Sunni Arab allies, who quickly switched sides, and sometimes even worked with the Americans (more so than the Shia dominated Iraqi security forces) to hunt down and kill al Qaeda operators.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bill Roggio <\/a>is reporting a similar phenomenon within the Mahdi Army. And he is quoting no less than the Los Angeles Times!<\/p>\n

A common narrative about the war in Iraq is that fighting against the enemy in urban environments creates more insurgents, thus it is fruitless to even try. But today’s Los Angeles Times finally asked Iraqis in Sadr City what they think about the recent fighting and how it impacts their views of the Mahdi Army. The answer: The Mahdi Army has lost significant support from not only residents caught in the crossfire, but from Mahdi Army fighters themselves.<\/p>\n

In fact, some Mahdi Army fighters were so discouraged by the recent fighting that they vowed to never join the ranks again. “I had faith. I believed in something,” a former Mahdi Army fighter told the LA Times. “Now, I will never fight with them.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The bottom line: WE ARE SAFER. Sorry about that Barry; wrong again.<\/p>\n

The Democrat talking point that \u201cKilling terrorists creates more terrorists\u201d is an abject lesson in the danger of nuanced thinking.<\/p>\n

The thinking is that killing a terrorist makes the terrorist\u2019s brother join the fight to avenge his brother. This is the kind of thinking at the very heart of appeasement and it NEVER works.<\/p>\n

Do you know why the terrorists are discussing \u201cwhat went wrong\u201d? Because they got their collective ass kicked, that\u2019s why.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s nuanced academic approach is akin to the argument that the death penalty does not deter criminal behavior. Maybe it doesn\u2019t but there is one unassailable fact about the death penalty. When used, it significantly impacts the likelihood of said individual ever becoming a repeat offender.<\/p>\n

This is a fairly simple concept actually; when someone is trying to kill you, anything you do other than kill him first is counter-productive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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