For the surge.  It brings to mind the Tet Offensive.  We won militarily, with a casualty-kill ratio of at least 1:5.  It was psychologically that they beat us, striking into the heart of South Viet Nam, where we were supposed to be safe.

Same thing with the Green Zone.  These mortars aren’t the Tet yet, but they could have the same effect.  That’s why terrorists will always be dangerous.  They attack ideas,  not places.  They destroy symbols.  Like Nick Naylor, they prove us wrong, not them right.

So keep surging, surgers.  And to the journalists, please!  Realize this is the nature of the war and don’t give them the fear they want.

And to my readers: Any idea on how we might turn the symbolic frame of battle against them?

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