Delusions of Adequacy

The Belmont Club has this very interesting analysis of the situation in Fallujah. What looks like a tremendous PR victory for the insurgents there -- the "withdrawal" of the Marines besieging the last pocket of resistance in the northwestern corner of the city, a withdrawal unlikely to be viewed in the Arab world as anything but a defeat for the US -- is, according to one US general, a strategy to isolate the most hardcore insurgent elements from those "who thought they were defending their city based upon the call of the imams...."

As Wretchard writes, "Only time will tell if the plan will work."