"Victims of Success"

"The CENTCOM child care center". :)

A good blog today from Jed Babbin at NRO:

.... The so-called "pause" going on now is a consolidation of forces and a continuation of the advance. While army and marine units resupply, that doesn't mean the coalition forces are taking a week off while the war planners go back to the drawing board. If many regroup and resupply fifty miles outside Baghdad while others fight to prepare that battlefield, that smacks of good military judgment. The days aren't being wasted by the Air Force and Navy strike fighters and bombers that continue to rain all manner of hell on Saddam's troops. Those days also aren't being wasted by those, such as the 82nd and 101st Airborne, striking at the "fedayeen" terror cells, and securing both supply routes and the masses of troops who keep on toward Baghdad. And those days aren't wasted by the scout-sniper teams all over the area, perhaps even downtown Baghdad. The military hasn't taken off for Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale.

But so it apparently seems to many in the CENTCOM child care center and even some embedded reporters. They are a bit petulant that their vacation plans and resort reservations are being invalidated by what they perceive are delays and failures. Yes, we apparently underestimated the Iraqis intent to use terrorist tactics, as well as their capacity for inhumanity. But just because your plans for April in Paris are being ruined by these inconsiderate men who haven't won the whole thing yet, that doesn't mean that we're losing, or even delayed....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Sat. 03/29/03 02:59:03 PM
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