Wednesday, July 11, 2007

The National Resistance is Here

Michael Yon writes about the Sunni Arab movement to fight with us against al Qaeda, and how al Qaeda in Iraq is being beaten.

The enemy thought they might unify Iraqis against us.

But we have done what I saw coming years ago:


The Baathists screwed up big allying with the Islamists (as I noted in "Center of Gravity" in June 2004). They thought they could use the Islamists to spark a national revolt against American forces but instead the Islamists are giving all Iraqis a foreign enemy to rally against.


This will be our enemy's critical error in this war. Rumsfeld should be grateful he isn't their defense chief.


Now we have a national resistance of Iraqis to throw out the real occupiers.