Can’t we have a debate with Teresa, please?
Three thousand soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division and 2,000 Iraqis took the city of Samarra in the Sunni triangle, profiting from lessons learned in the recent battle for Najaf by eschewing a go-slow strategy. “We just came out of a defensive position into an offensive position,” said Iraq’s interior minister Falah al-Naqib. Let us hope he is right. Americans and Iraqis aim to retake Ramadi, Fallujah, and the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad before January’s elections. American skill and firepower can guarantee these victories. Securing them with Iraqi troops will be harder. Hardest of all is to stop the flow of terrorists from Syria, where surviving Iraqi Baathists have gone to ground, and Iran, which labors to destabilize its neighbor. We appear to have plans to accomplish tasks one and two. What of three?
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