From Centcom:
Now while that sounds like a nasty recipe for death and destruction, there’s plenty of good news in between the lines there (besides the fact that the note was plucked from the body of a dead tango). First, al Qaeda is acknowledging that the tactics which sustained them since 2003 have been rendered obsolete by General Petraeus. Second, they are reacting to us, instead of us reacting to them. Last, while al Qaeda’s tactics appear to be changing, they continue to cling to the same failed strategy of death and destruction. That battleplan succeeded in landing an additional 28,000 American troops on Iraqi soil and turning almost the entire population of Iraq against al Qaeda’s foreign jihadists–it’s an objectively bad strategy.
