Bad Day - Sullivan on

Bad Day - Sullivan on yesterday, a bad day in Iraq, which he describes as...:

"...enough to make anyone want to leave the place in disgust. But that's the point. Saddam always relied on the Somalia strategy. He believed - and probably still does - that the U.S. does not have the guts to stick this out and wear down the Sunni dead-enders now combined with Islamist terrorists. He planned on this kind of war of attrition from the minute he knew he was militarily finished. That makes our endurance all the more necessary. The slow collapse of American credibility in the 1990s will take time to reverse. And moments like yesterday are classic attempts to test our determination. "

I'm waiting for the first leftblogger to cite yesterday's attacks as a reason to withdraw.

Posted by Mitch at November 3, 2003 07:15 AM