Senator Joseph Biden, still promoting the increasingly inappropriate notion of partitioning Iraq, declares that for every positive development in Iraq that can be reported, there are at least as many negatives. In an op-ed in this morning’s (April 12) Washington Post, he identifies four examples:
* As violence has gone down in Baghdad, it is rising in the belt around Baghdad: “when we squeeze the water balloon in one place, it bulges somewhere else.”
* Muqtada al Sadr, leader of the extremist Mahdi Army, has not been seen, but “he has been heard, rallying his followers with anti-American messages and encouraging his thugs to take on American troops in the south. Intelligence experts believe his militia is simply waiting out the surge.”
* Closing markets has precluded some car bombs, but terrorists have simply changed tactics and now use suicide vests.
* In Tal Afar, a truck bomb hit the Shiite community and sparked retaliatory Shiite attacks.
None of these examples prove the point Biden is trying to make:
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