More Than 100 People Killed in Iraq Market Blast. Will it undermine the war effort?
TUZ KHORMATO, Iraq — A homicide truck bomber blasted a Shiite town north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 100 people, police said, in a sign Sunni insurgents are pulling away from a U.S. offensive around the capital to attack where security is thinner.
The marketplace devastation underlined a hard reality in Iraq: There are not enough forces to protect everywhere. U.S. troops, already increased by 28,000 this year, are focused on bringing calm to Baghdad, while the Iraqi military and police remain overstretched and undertrained.
The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, told The Associated Press he expected Sunni extremists to try to “pull off a variety of sensational attacks and grab the headlines to create a `mini-Tet.’”
He was referring to the 1968 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Tet offensive that undermined public support for the Vietnam War in the United States.
I am sure the liberals will attempt to use this like they used the Tet offensive in 1968 to turn the public against the military effort in Vietnam. If the American people are so willfully ignorant of the past and what failure in Iraq will bring to all the West perhaps they simply deserve the consequences.
Date posted: Saturday, July 7th, 2007 7:27 pm | Under category: Liberals/Left, iraq
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