TIME AND AGAIN (AND AGAIN!) K-Lo with an assist from David Pryce-Jones unleashes a dispatch from the Gamma Quadrant: “He calls Zarqawi�s demise both a ‘collassal morale boost’ for all of us but says it also has ‘big operational significance.’ ‘When you get rid of a leader, it�s very hard to replace him.’ The Israelis have proved this time and time again.”
The Israelis certainly have proven a lot of things about the tactical/operational aspects of counterterrorism time and again. And, indeed, again. And again. They’ve proven them so often, for so long, that one might almost conclude that tactical counterterrorism accomplishes very little absent resolution of the underlying political conflicts.
–Matthew Yglesias
