Surge To Victory … Sh-h-h-h-h-h-h!!!
(IBD)
War On Terror: They said the surge would fail. They claimed we had no allies. They called Iraq a quagmire. They sought to cut and run. Now, our victories over terror are accelerating across the world.
Take a look at what happened in the global war on terror just over the Memorial Day weekend:
• Iraqi forces ran al-Qaida terrorists out of Mosul, the terror organization’s final urban stronghold. That victory reduces the killers to fringe areas with little public support, and a truncated capacity to recruit and strike terror in Iraq’s cities. Al-Qaida has “never been closer to defeat than they are now,” said Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
Iraqi troops also cleaned out Basra and Sadr City, reducing any prospect for domestic insurgents to take power by force. Along with al-Qaida, these terrorists may try to continue, but the will is fading as the pressure is ratcheted up.
• In Colombia, Defense Minister Juan Manuel Santos announced that Manuel “Sureshot” Marulanda, founder of the FARC Marxist terror group, died a hunted man in the jungle on March 26 as bombs rained down on him. Better still, the government knew this because it penetrated FARC. Marulanda died knowing his chosen successor, Raul Reyes, had been blown away, too. Indeed, three of FARC’s seven top leaders have been killed since March, and the rest are headed “for the grave,” Santos said.
Hundreds of FARC foot soldiers are now furtively phoning the government to beg for a deal. Along with fears of their own men turning them in for cash, FARC leaders now work in a poisoned atmosphere, knowing spies are in their midst. They won’t win.
• British forces for the first time drove the Taliban from a southern stronghold in a 96-hour battle this month. It was their first combat operation since new troops arrived in March. The New York Times reported a “palpable” sense of relief among villagers, with the district chief and exiles returning to rebuild. “There has been huge optimism from the people,” an officer was quoted as saying.
• In the south Philippines, Marxist and Muslim terrorists are desperate. A big arsenal belonging to al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf was unearthed in Sulu Saturday, taking 283 sacks of bomb components out of circulation. Meanwhile, Nur Misuari, the top terrorist of the Moro National Liberation Front, on parole in Davao, pleaded with other terrorists to drop arms and sue for peace at a rally Saturday.
• In Egypt’s al-Qaida inner circle, a leading jihad ideologue, using the nom de guerre Dr. Fadl, has now openly questioned terrorism as a tactic, given al-Qaida’s mounting losses. He threatened to renounce violence — a new blow to the jihadists.
Has there ever been such an epidemic of terrorist surrender? And the trend is growing. For the first time, the possibility of a world without major terror organizations is real. The world has shrunk for them, while the nations that fight back are getting stronger.
Significantly, those doing much of the winning are U.S. allies — the ones we supposedly don’t have.
The British have sprung to life after years of ineffectiveness. They now show their old mettle as they break the Taliban.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi, Colombian and Philippine militaries have become effective anti-terrorist fighters after U.S. training. Those countries’ forces were directly responsible for victory in Mosul, and big reversals in the jungles of Colombia and Philippines.
U.S.-trained anti-terror forces now form a united, global front of sorts. It’s a bad time to be a terrorist.
So where are the naysayers now with their conventional wisdom that the war can’t be won? The tables are turning on terrorists all over the world. As victories crescendo, it should be trumpeted loudly: The surge is working.
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Great article, thanks drill…
PS - The above cartoon is my new desktop background
May 27th, 2008 at 7:19 pm“• In Egypt’s al-Qaida inner circle, a leading jihad ideologue, using the nom de guerre Dr. Fadl, has now openly questioned terrorism as a tactic, given al-Qaida’s mounting losses. He threatened to renounce violence — a new blow to the jihadists”
So beware of cultural and legal infiltration next. It will be easier for them to defeat us with our own rules and laws than it will by force of arms…
May 27th, 2008 at 7:39 pmEGYPT?!?!?! I thought Jimmah took Egypt outta all this back in the 70’s!!
May 27th, 2008 at 8:01 pmFuckin’ tool.
Don’t stop surging till all the fucks are dead or surrender.
This is a great article. i doubt i would have stumbled across this one on my own. Good job for posting it drill
and that picture is priceless. could have made it with 3 surrender monkeys too
May 27th, 2008 at 8:23 pmI try to read Investor Business Daily editorials almost every day. There are some great ones. They also HATE Obama and the way he will destroy our country if he has a chance. He will certainly pull our support to most foreign militaries and allow our enemies to regroup. There is so many things going on in the world that the public never knows…..and its these actions that has kept America safe since 9/11.
May 27th, 2008 at 8:24 pm“British forces for the first time drove the Taliban from a southern stronghold in a 96-hour battle this month. It was their first combat operation since new troops arrived in March. The New York Times reported a “palpable” sense of relief among villagers, with the district chief and exiles returning to rebuild. “There has been huge optimism from the people,” an officer was quoted as saying.”
The USMC aren’t British damn it!
May 27th, 2008 at 10:30 pmYeah, exactly Snake. I thought something was funny about giving the British the credit for the 96-hour victory, because I saw a post/news just days ago that gave the credit to the United States Marines. Give credit where it’s due, please.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:55 amso the jihadist are lowering their arms, a new tactict has been defined : the intellectual discourse, through the net, MSM…
Empedocles described the “evil” (that permissed the Holocaust)… and nowadays the “islamism threat” in the muslim world
there are two zoogonies, one under the increasingly dominant influence of Love and the other under the dominant influence of Strife. Moreover, the dominant influence of Love marks a cosmic half-cycle that is the opposite of the cosmic half-cycle marked by the dominant influence of Strife. By contrast, in the second strain of interpretation, there is only one zoogony, which takes place under the increasing influence of Love, although Strife is still present. Thus, there are not two zoogonies happening in distinct cosmic cycles; rather there are fluctuations of Love and Strife within the progress from total domination by Strife to that by Love
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/empedocles/
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May 28th, 2008 at 2:38 amYeah, interesting that the battle against the Taliban happened after 3,000 Marines arrived. Hmmm…2+2 doesn’t equal 5.
May 28th, 2008 at 4:02 am