Reuters.com reports,

Four U.S. soldiers were among at least 15 people killed in a bloody day of suicide car bombings in and around Baghdad on Monday as a major offensive against Sunni Arab insurgents took place near Iraq's border with Syria.

The deaath of four more soliders is bad, but as the Reuters article points out,

The attack echoed a similar attack a week ago when four U.S. soldiers were killed in Yusufiya, just south of Baghdad.

It appears that we're stuck in a sprial of violence and there are no ideas coming from the White House or the Pentagon about how to break free. Having some real partners in our grand coalition sure would help. We keep repeating the same mistake over and over again all the while claiming victory is just around the corner (and revising what "we" mean by victory each time).

Maybe I'll wake up tomorrow and the last five years will have been a bad dream?

posted by Idle Crank at 11/08/2005 03:33:00 AM