Flypaper -- Umm, Honeypot Update

Command Post has an interesting article about the new Iraqi intervention force (Iraqi troops that is) and the apparent pre-announcement of an upcoming December offensive.

Read it -- I'll wait.

One commenter has an interesting take on the apparent "leak":

Classic Sun Tzu and Clausewitz

Precisely the point, as the jihadis are saying to themselves, ” Who are those two guys? We don’t see their names in the Quran or Hadiths.” They are trapped by their own ideology. They only have the tactics described explicitly in their 7th century jihad playbook but the non-Muslim practioners of the art of war are not constrained by such nonsense.

By invading Iraq the United States is seizing Islamic lands in accordance with Sun Tzu’s strategy of grabbing something that is highly valued to the enemy and using it to draw them to you (a.k.a. “honeypot”). And by going for Baghdad, the very heart of the now defunct Islamic empire and seat of the deposed Caliphate, the US is creating a Clausewitzian “center of gravity”.

Allawi’s remarks today are clear testament that the strategy is working:

“Terrorists are coming and pouring in from various countries into Iraq to try and undermine the situation in Iraq. They’re coming from Afghanistan, Pakistan, from Europe, from Morocco, from Syria and so on.
“Iraq is on the front line of fighting these terrorists. And, God forbid, if Iraq is broken or the will of Iraq is broken, then London would be a target, Washington will be a target, Paris will be a target, Cairo will be a target, as we have seen in the past.”

q.e.d.

Oh, and did he forget to mention New York?