It appears that after another week in which the last throes of the insurgency continue the U.S. military is reduced to Vietnam era style body counts.

Coalition forces killed six insurgents in northern Iraq on Sunday during raids on al Qaeda in Iraq safe houses, the U.S. military said.

The CNN story goes on to recount how many insurgents we and the Iraqi government have captured or killed since mid-August. The fact we're still capturing and killing isurgents in such numbers makes it clear we're not making much headway. We had no real policy for dealing with the insurgency before hurricane Katrina and now that the 'brain trust' at the White House is scrambling for their political lives it's likely that we'll see the U.S. military left twisting in the wind. Meanwhile the insurgency doesn't seem to be bothered too much by our military "successes." The insurgents appear just as capable of striking whenever and where ever they choose. The same CNN story notes how despite our killing of six insurgents and capturing a bunch more, Faris Nasser Hussein a member of the Iraqi parliament, his brother, and their driver were killed while on the road to Baghdad from Mosul. Haidar Qassem Shanaw another member of parliament was wounded in the attack. Oh, and the insurgents also managed to blow up a train carrying fuel outside of a Baghdad refinery. But rest assured, Rummy, Bremer, etc. did a "heck of job in Iraq." Heck of job.
posted by Idle Crank at 9/18/2005 07:15:00 PM