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November 19, 2003Flypaper RIP More Flypaper debunkingFlypaper RIP More Flypaper debunking by people who would actually be in a position to really know what's going on on the ground. Flypaper, as B.D. argued a while back, was always more Begala-like spin than serious Administration policy or an accurate reflection of the reality on the ground. Commanders on the ground are flexing their muscles by speaking up so as to inject realism into policy debates in Washington and debunk some myths that may imperil the conduct of their counter-insurgency operations. Over the past weeks, the key theme was that we were fighting an increasingly sophisticated insurgency and were thus, pretty much, still at war. Now they are making clear that there aren't myriad Ho Chi Minh trails leading from Damascus, Riyadh and Teheran etc. to Falujah, Baghdad and Tikrit. Better to know who your real enemies are than create bogeymans for domestic consumption anyway, isn't it? The real enemies are Ba'athist remnants, Saddam Fedayeen, Iraqi criminals/mercenaries, perhaps some radicalized Sunnis that were not fully in bed with Saddam's regime before the war, terror groups and foreign jihadis. And likely in that order from most numerically significant to least. Posted by Gregory at November 19, 2003 08:01 AMComments
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