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.
