Monday, October 02, 2006
The Iraq war: More evidence that it is polarizing the neutrals
Regular readers know that we have rather relentlessly argued that one of the general effects of war is to make it harder for people to remain neutral. It is therefore not surprising in the least -- it is predictable, in fact -- that the Iraq war has caused some people to take the side of the jihad, thereby increasing the number of terrorists. However, it is equally predictable that other people would take up arms in opposition to the jihadis. Dave Price of Dean's World points to still more evidence that this is precisely what is happening in Iraq.
The arc of conflict is such that it is inevitable that the enemy's army will increase over the course of the war, at least until enough defeats have put it into irreversible decline. The trick is to increase your army faster than the enemy. One would think that point would not require constant repetition, but the reporters who cover this conflict do not seem to understand it.
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Dawnfire82, at
Tue Oct 03, 05:24:00 PM:
Reporters are parrots, not scholars or practitioners. By and large, they don't really understand anything they cover except how to spin it for profit.
