Oooooh, That War! Part II
And now the Washington Post has noticed.
Opinion Journal's
James Taranto notes a report by
Thomas Ricks in the March 1 edition of the Washington Post:
Phase One
If you're getting impatient with the slow pace of prebattle diplomacy, we feel your pain. We're certainly sympathetic to the view that if Saddam stays in power for one more day, the weasels will have won. But here's another way of looking at it. The Washington Post's Thomas Ricks suggests the liberation has already begun:
"Without much public notice, its first phase is already underway. Special Operations troops are executing missions inside Iraq to prepare the way for later attacks. U.S. and British warplanes ostensibly enforcing the 'no-fly' zones in northern and southern Iraq have increased the number and intensity of airstrikes, and recently expanded their list of targets to include Iraqi surface-to-surface missiles. They were attacked, defense officials said, not because they were in the 'no-fly' zones and threatened U.S. aircraft but because they were in range of U.S. troops mustering just over the border in Kuwait."
