Amid a few bad weeks in Iraq, there is good news: Americans launched an offensive on insurgents along a smuggling route near the Iraq-Syria border. The good guys took out more than 100 bad guys, who no longer have the ability to implode car bombs outside mosques, assassinate elected leaders, behead civilians, or detonate roadside explosive devices that maim and kill Americans.

Yay

This is a very difficult phase of the war on terror. I think the Bush administration made a mistake by not explaining to the American people how dificult this would be at the outset.