noteworthy wrote: ] Media accounts also routinely describe the fighting outside ] Falluja as a "rebel counteroffensive" that surprised the US ] military, implying that the reduction of Falluja merely ] created more insurgents. ] ] But the view conveyed by these headlines is myopic. ] ] The rebels can attack on a broad front for a while, but they ] will not be able to keep it up for long. What is going on in ] the Sunni Triangle is not so much a "rebel counteroffensive" ] as it is the last desperate gasp of a group running out ] of time and space. ] ] ] Drawing on lessons from World War II, this writer disputes the ] implication of my "Slog" poem. Yes, but it's from the Weekly Standard, one of the only magazines I can think of where far enough to the right that Joseph Goebbels would feel right at home. RE: Two, Three, Many Fallujas |