Priceless

clipped from baseballcrank.com Actually, the Iraq war erases the perception among Muslims that Americans can't fight. Well, if you follow jihadist Web sites, you'll see that nobody is making that argument anymore. During the Second Battle of Fallujah, the word got out that the Americans were relentless and just as ruthless as the muj. There were several cases of muj wearing suicide vests being buried up to their necks in rubble, and the explosive ordnance disposal teams simply blew up these hapless idiots, treating them as artillery shells or unexploded bombs. When snipers occupied an empty house, the Americans flattened the entire building and moved on. The muj were and remain in awe. That's what the Iraq war has accomplished, and that's a priceless, far-ranging victory we couldn't have achieved any other way. They fear us now, which is what we need in order to get their cooperation.