Comments on: Insurgents Down Civilian Helicopter Near Baghdad, Killing 11

By: Carpe Bonum

Carpe Bonum — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:02:34 +0000

Why we fight
In addition to the 9/11 attacks, the Bali bombing, the Beslan school massacre, the kidnappings and beheadings in Iraq, we have one more reason to stand firm against the terrorists. The terrorists who shot down the Bulgarian helicopter in...

By: Jim Henley

Jim Henley — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:36:14 +0000

Good question re the helicopter itself. I think we can safely conclude, for instance, that the downing of the British cargo plane the other month was a lucky shot - it hasn't been repeated. A couple of months should give us our answer on the helicopter too.

Meanwhile, the insurgencies appear not to be spiraling down into defeat after all. It looks like the true picture is, they ramped up their opstempo for the elections, regrouped, and now are ramping up their opstempo again. I blogged a little bit about this last night, but Spencer Ackerman is also on the case, reconsidering his earlier optimism about the post-election outlook for the insurgent groups.

By: bryan

bryan — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:35:48 +0000

James, this was all over the news yesterday since morning. Isn't this "old news" by now?

Just curious.