I'm extremely excited to see the White House stepping up their seriousness in communicating the vision for our struggle in the Long War on Terrorism - especially its currently central battle ground in Iraq. More importantly, it's extremely gratifying to see the President personally promoting meaningful measures of our success in the surge of operations in the Iraq theater.
In his much maligned speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) gathering in Kansas City, the President supplied one of the measures for which I have been advocating: Combatant Eradicated.
From the Speech:
In Iraq, our troops are taking the fight to the extremists and radicals and murderers all throughout the country. Our troops have killed or captured an average of more than 1,500 al Qaeda terrorists and other extremists every month since January of this year.
That's between 10,000 - 12,000 combatants removed from the battle field - since January!
As I proposed in a former post, this particular metric, while superior to Vietnam era measures of enemy "kills", is still orphaned of interpretive context without being paired with some additional metrics.
I hope that that this new surge of communication from the President will further embrace a full-throated, hearty display of defense which makes use of a full arsenal measures. Perhaps the upcoming surge of support from candidates, media savvy supporters and political leaders will also present the American people with a substantive sense of our progress by referencing success factors which stretch beyond the obvious stale examples for which opponents are well prepared to refute.
On Principle,
CBass
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