Thursday, January 06, 2005
Quickie: A couple of sources (ours came in the form of an email, the only online version we've found is from the UPI...) are claiming that the U.S. has captured Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. We rate this as about 30% true. We don't think that, if this is true, it will spell the end for the war in Iraq. The capture of Hussein served to deflate any question about whether or not the insurgency would continue without him. So, too, do we believe that if Zarqawi has been captured the insurgency won't end. Nevertheless, he has done much harm both to U.S. troops and Iraqi citizens and we hope this news is true. We also hope that this leads to more effective intelligence operations in Iraq, an area where U.S. efforts have consistently fallen short of what's required to make headway against the insurgency/terrorists/whatever the flavor of the month for this rather loosely bound and disparate group of people is. I tend more towards the many people/many motives theory of the war -- there are many people fighting against the U.S. presence in Iraq and they have many motives.
Andrew 10:56 PM : |
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