A Brilliant Military Strategy

Well, it looks like they see suicide as the path to victory. Iraq blew up its first soldier (intentionally, at least) yesterday, taking four of ours with him. One of the many VPs of the country vowed that more would follow.

Good for them. Seriously, I'm happy for them if they believe so much in their cause that they're willing to die for it. And if they self-detonate it means that our men don't have to worry about a guilty conscience from killing them. It's the best of both worlds - they die for their cause and we don't have to kill them. All we have to do is to make sure that we protect our men and we'll have hit the trifecta.

Donald Sensing wrote a great essay about why an Iraqi Islamist would want to turn themselves into a bloodstain on the road. His comparisons between the Japanese of WWII and the Islamofacists of today are excellent. And as he states, hopefully the fedayeen will never catch on to their lunacy. They would be much more dangerous in a post-war Iraq than they are now.

Reading his essay also gives me some additional hope for the Iraqi people. Why? I've been concerned that they would never be able to move beyond the cult glorifying suicide. It seemed to almost be the basis on which their entire religious existence was founded. American and western Muslims have, for the most part, moved beyond the cult, but the people in the Middle East seemed to be in this never-ending cycle of stupidity. But the Japanese managed to overcome this same cult and they have actually grown to prosper since the end of WWII. If the Japanese could overcome the power of the cult, so can the Iraqis.

Hopefully, we won't have to suffer through four years of exploding cultists before they start to grow up.

It all goes back to their experiencing a Renaissance and beginning to value a human life.