Friday, January 28, 2005

No Escalation?

Arthur Chrenkoff has noticed that the predicted rise in violence prior to the elections has not occurred (at least not so far).

What does not occur to him is that this might not be just because security in Iraq is so good. Perhaps derailing the elections is not a central objective for the insurgents.

Of course, we always have Abu Masab Al-Zarqawi to remind us of how much the insurgents hate democracy and how much democracy vs. anti-democracy are the only two sides in this war and being for or against democracy is the only issue anyone is fighting about.

Of course, I have my doubts about the authenticity of Zarqawi's announcements, but we shall see.

That is all.

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