[lbo-talk] A new turn in US military strategy in Iraq?

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

> Rather than employing the classic rebel tactic of provoking the
> foreign forces to use clumsy and excessive force and kill civilians,
> they are cutting out the middleman and killing civilians
> indiscriminately themselves, in addition to more predictable targets
> like officials of the new government. Bombings have escalated in the
> last two weeks, and on Thursday a bomb went off in heavy traffic in
> Baghdad, killing 21 people.

That makes me wonder too.  Either the people who attack civilian Iraqi
targets are so stupid that they do not mind shooting their own foot, or else
they are the "astro-turf" movement created and controlled by the US puppet
masters to discredit the actual insurgency.  I vote the latter.

Wojtek