posted by Chris @ 5/14/2005 01:42:00 PM  
The Mystery of the Insurgency

This New York Times article tries to make sense of the Iraqi insurgents' new tactics of attacking their own people. But there is a simple explanation for their motives - any bad news from Iraq is bad news for the United States. Though the insurgents are killing their own people in droves, the insurgents know that many in Iraq and around the world will hold the U.S. personally responsible for these killings, either because of America's failure to provide adequate security or just because of America's very presence in Iraq. The insurgents don't have to adopt the same tactics as those of the North Vietnamese, they just have to make Iraq look like Vietnam any way they can! Photo: Black Hawks over Baghdad after a suicide bombing.

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