Posted by
On the Right on Sunday, July 06, 2008 4:50:08 PM
Did you know that the US and Iraq will shortly conclude “one of the most
spectacular victories of the war on terror”? You wouldn’t if you read
American newspapers or watched American television. The Times of London
reports on the approaching end of al-Qaeda in Iraq as the forces of
Nouri al-Maliki and the US close the trap on 1,200 AQ terrorists in
Mosul
And what have we won? AQ has sustained an unmitigated defeat in
Iraq. They have lost tens of thousands of recruits and fighters, men
that would have otherwise volunteered for other missions in which they
didn’t have to face the American military. They have lost their
supposedly divine endorsement; why would Allah have called them to
action, just to see them destroyed by the infidels? The sheer
bloodthirstiness of their actions in Iraq have exposed them as
drug-driven demons, not righteous jihadists.
The Times of London has this right: the victory in Mosul gives the
West the most spectacular victory of the war. Too bad the American
media missed it. (via Instapundit)