On The Lookout

Here is a chart of Zarqawi's organization, in case anyone was, like me, keeping an eye out for these guys.

My friend's younger brother is a Marine Officer and I asked him over the break why we aren't able to capture Zarqawi and he gave me what seemed like a reasonable explanation: the insurgents that are still alive are the good insurgents. Essentially, we do a good job of killing the "low hanging fruit," or the mental midgets of the insurgency, but the good ones are much tougher to find and kill.

It makes sense, but it still seems to me like we should be able to find these guys...I mean, we really only have to get lucky one time.

I hate these theories that maybe we're better off with Bin Laden on the loose. Fuck that shit. That's the same stupid attitude that people have on movie sets when there is a lot of noise and people say, "Well, maybe the traffic sound will be good for the background noise." Yeah right. It's called cognitive dissonence, or wishful thinking. We want Zarqawi and Bin Laden and methinks we should be able to capture them by now.

Granted, it took us years to find the unibomber, but it came about once the FBI released letters he had written and his own brother recognized the prose and turned him in. We need to take some more radical approaches to catching these guys, like offering weird amnesty deals for low level terrorists, or paying foreign intelligence services to get us info, or set up fake situations, like availability of a nuke to purchase, to bring them more out in the open. Stuff like this.