{"id":9316,"date":"2007-06-24T14:53:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T20:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9316"},"modified":"2007-06-24T14:53:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T20:53:47","slug":"the-best-defense-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9316","title":{"rendered":"The Best Defense [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Roggio has the latest<\/a> on the coalition initiatives in Iraq, and according to Michael Yon<\/a>, who emailed Reynolds, things are going very well. But what I’d like to consider is the economics of the situation.<\/p>\n

As we know, part of bin-Laden’s plot was to cause the collapse of the US economy. It is true that the war has been costly, but fortunately this has been largely offset by economic expansion spurred by the Bush administration’s tax policies and general promotion of “ownership,” i.e. capitalism. Al-Qaeda’s objective has been to fight what has been termed an asymmetrical war, wherein the policies, materiel and attitudes of the coalition towards loss of life could be utilized against it. It has largely been a guerilla war by proxy from the Islamist side: al-Qaeda, Iran and realigned Ba’athists. Now, however, they have committed so many men and so much materiel to the battlefield that they are in a position of vulnerability themselves, having committed to invest as much as they can into the production of atrocities in theater while the Western media are allied with their interests.<\/p>\n

What they are presently losing in Iraq cannot be easily made up, and the days when they were able to ensure the financial welfare of the families of their martyrs are done, and this, along with the numbers that they are losing, will hurt recruitment. They have also made themselves so obnoxious generally to the citizenry that once in part supported them, that they have begun to lose the propaganda battle within Iraq.<\/p>\n

In short, the tables are turned, in my view. I wonder whether any of our military readers would care to comment, critique, or flesh out my interpretation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Roggio has the latest on the coalition initiatives in Iraq, and according to Michael Yon, who emailed Reynolds, things are going very well. But what I’d like to consider is the economics of the situation. As we know, part of bin-Laden’s plot was to cause the collapse of the US economy. It is true that the war has been costly, but fortunately this has been largely offset by economic<\/p>\n

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