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We're still trying to figure out a six-part test from some
decision Sandra Day O'Connor wrote back in 1984, but now she's
going to tell us what to do in Iraq.
Have things changed on the ground in Iraq? Are our troops
being routed? Hardly. The number of U.S. fatalities has gone from
a high of 860 deaths in 2004 to 845 in 2005, to 695 through
November of this year. If the Islamic fascists double their rate
of killing Americans in the next month, there will still be fewer
American fatalities in Iraq this year than in the previous two
years.
Admittedly, it would be a little easier to track our progress
in Iraq if the Pentagon would tell us how many of them we're
killing, but apparently our Pentagon is too spooked by the
insurgents posing as civilians to mention the deaths of our
enemies.
Moreover, it might seem churlish to mention the number of
Islamic lunatics we've killed during the holy month of Ramadan.
Half the time we do anything to them, it's "the holy month of
Ramadan." It's always Ramadan. When on Earth is Ramadan over?
It's true that no one anticipated that al-Qaida sympathizers
would stream into Iraq to fight the Great Satan after Saddam fled
to a spider hole, but that's because everyone expected al-Qaida
to be fighting us here.
Like "Peking," that's something else we can't say anymore: the
amazing absence of another 9/11-style terrorist attack in the
past five years. The heart of the insurgency in Iraq is, by
definition, composed of Islamic terrorists who hate the Great
Satan, own an overnight bag and are willing to travel to kill
Americans. But don't worry: The Iraq Surrender Group feels sure
they won't come here if we pull out of Iraq.
If absolutely nothing changed in Iraq over the next few years
-- if it didn't continue to get better and if the savages never
lost heart (I'm assuming they subscribe to "TimesSelect") -- by
2010, 6,000 brave American troops will have died to prevent
another 9/11 terrorist attack on American soil for a decade.
If that's a war Americans think we're "losing," Osama bin
Laden was right: We are a paper tiger. |