Rich Lowry adopts the usual pro-war strategy of assuming that the political process is all-important, which I have discussed here.
He also explains our failures to hold territory "cleared" of insurgents by touting the "Iraqization" strategy, without mentioning the primary failure of "Iraqization:" namely, we seem to have troubles maintaining Iraqi forces that are loyal to the government: in June we had only three battalions capable of operating independently, and it seems that that may have decreased to one.
He also repeats the line that the insurgents' tactics, as they are killing a lot of Iraqis, will lead to disaffection with the insurgency and therefore a turning to the political process. Maybe. But haven't we heard this before, and the insurgency has just gotten stronger?
I don't know about you, but I am still waiting for the Iraqis to finally get tired of being targeted by terrorists and to quell the insurgency on their own. AFter all, it obviously has no popular support, so any day now, the insurgents are going to take one step too far and seal their fate.
Any day now. I'm waiting... Yep. For sure.
That is all.
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