Comments on: Iraqi Jihadis Analyze Coalition Strategy

By: Herschel Smith

Herschel Smith — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:01:21 +0000

I agree Brian. I was being gracious to my previous commenter. The Tet offensive and this tactic, and the participants, have little if anything in common. I agree with your assessment.

But boy oh boy, do I love it when othur peopel make spelng erors! I make enuff of mi owwn.

By: Brian H

Brian H — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:41:09 +0000

Erratum: destabilize, of course, not “destabalize”!

By: Brian H

Brian H — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:40:16 +0000

No, I think the Tet image is flawed; Tet was a co-ordinated push be NVA troops and deep penetrations by guerilla cells into protected areas to try to destabalize the whole front and country. It failed to do either, but the third rail, creating an illusion of US defeat in the minds of the US public, succeeded. And that was sufficient.

AQ has nothing like the resources to achieve #1 or #2, and probably not even #3; Petraeus has been far too consistent and persistent in his puncturing of the defeat bubble the MSM had been building and inflating with the aid of the Democrats, aka Copperheads. The show-blasts are less effective than previously, partly by their very discontinuity with field operations or wider AQ successes: they are the exceptions that prove the rule.

By: The Thunder Run

The Thunder Run — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:31:59 +0000

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By: Herschel Smith

Herschel Smith — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:03:59 +0000

I think you’re saying the same thing I am.

HPS

By: Snooper

Snooper — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:38:20 +0000

Sounds like a Jihadi Tet to me.

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/247147.php