Reflections on the Donkey Island story

Thochilus Tales takes a closer look at the defeat of al Qaeda forces near Donkey Island as they prepared to launch an attack on one of the Anbar Sheiks. It is a good analysis.

It should be remembered that the purpose of such enemy attacks is to create a public relations event that can be used by Democrats as talking points for pushing their agenda of defeat in Iraq. The enemy does not have the military capacity for such a defeat, but he sees the center of gravity for this war in the Congress in Washington and he is doing his worst to help his allies in Congress.

Expect to see more such attacks as we approach the September report. Al Qaeda will try to stage PR events to help the anti war Democrats make the case for defeat. You have to recognize that almost all of their attacks are PR events more than military events. Unfortunately a compliant media too often goes along with the al Qaeda spin. While that is changing some, we still need to be alert for that spin.

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