Another retelling of how Al Qaeda is outlasting an American public that is spoiled, lazy and in denial. Not the first time this argument was positioned here but it cannot be understated. The left and it's media supporters are positioning terrorism as a Republican issue. Much of the country lacks the perspective and the follow through to realize that there are real nuts out there who would set a nuclear bomb off in the middle of New York City in a second once they are able to do so ... it cannot get any scarier than that.
This is why I keep posting this sort of article. You cannot understate what is at stake and it is at stake.
Slow-motion Tet
Al Qaeda is counting on sapping our will, and persuading America to choose to lose a war it could win. by Frederick W. Kagan & William Kristol 06/25/2007
Last week, a group of tribal leaders in Salah-ad-Din, the mostly Sunni province due north of Baghdad, agreed to work with the Iraqi government and U.S. forces against al Qaeda. Then al Qaeda destroyed the two remaining minarets of the al-Askariya mosque in Samarra, a city in the province. Coincidence? Perhaps. But al Qaeda is clearly taking a page from the Viet Cong's book. The terrorists have been mounting a slow-motion Tet offensive of spectacular attacks on markets, bridges, and mosques, knowing that the media report each such attack as an American defeat. The fact is that al Qaeda is steadily losing its grip in Iraq, and these attacks are alienating its erstwhile Iraqi supporters. But the terrorists are counting on sapping our will as the VC did, and persuading America to choose to lose a war it could win.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/769bdqeo.asp
