Jun 06 2007
More On The Grass Roots Backlash Against al-Qaeda
Stories are starting to percolate through some news outlets on the stunning turn of events in al-Qaeda’s stronghold areas of Iraq. The Muslim streets that make up the last sanctuary for al-Qaeda are rising up – against al-Qaeda. The moderates are taking up arms against the Islamo Fascists:
Under cover of darkness, a convoy of Bradley Fighting Vehicles and M1 tanks loaded with American soldiers pulled up to a mosque Monday night in the al Qaeda-infested neighborhood of Amariyah.
More than a dozen members of Islamic Army of Iraq, a key Sunni insurgent group, and some local residents waited for them, armed with AK-47 rifles and dressed in tracksuits and T-shirts.
But the two forces didn’t clash. Instead, they shared information and supplies, in a growing push by Islamic Army of Iraq and their neighborhood backers to push al Qaeda’s foreign fighters from the formerly wealthy district that includes Baghdad’s airport.
If the trend continues to grow al-Qaeda is finished in Iraq. It cannot sustain any insurgency against the democratic Iraqi government if the locals are taking up arms against them. al-Qaeda’s biggest fear will be realized. When offered the choice between their Islamo Fascist dogma and Western-style democracy the Iraqis are more and more chosing democracy. This would be an enormous victory for Bush and America. And it would destroy the credibility of al-Qaeda – as well as the Surrendercrats in DC and their SurrenderMedia allies.
I certainly Hope You are Right. We must win this war. I think if we give this war another 20 to 30 years, we can win it. Not the Iraq Theatre, but the war as a whole. But it will take changing the Hearts and Minds of around 300 to 500 million people to do it. And that will require Courage and Patience. It would take a Churchill like leader to hold us together to win the Global War as a Whole. I’m at a lose, looking ahead, as to who that is. Hopefully, someone of that stature will emerge. Rudy? Thompson? Hunter? too early to tell, I think. Maybe even none of them.
You mean the “Arab Street” is rising up against AQ not the US? that is not what the NYT told us would happen.
While I remain hopeful about all these reports, it appears that insurgents may be working a truce with AlQueda. Hot Air has it in the headline
Mao’s line about how the guerrilla is a fish swimming in a sea of peasants comes to mind.
“it appears that insurgents may be working a truce with AlQueda.”
Reminds me of the definition of diplomacy: “the art of saying ‘nice doggie’ while discreetly searching for a suitably-sized rock.”
Strata says
“the moderates are taking up arms against al Qaeda.”
But this is not true.. Some Sunni nationalists, every bit as anti-American and as hardline as Al Qaeda, but not believing in a pan-Islamic caliphate which extinguishes national boundaries and
governments are taking up arms against al Qaeda, as they
vow to continue the fight against the occupier.
There are also reports that the number of Sunnis doing so
is being misrepresented, exagerrated- by sectors of the media which
are sympathetic to continued occupation.