There's plenty of hand-wringing among the media elites today about the trio of terrorist suicides at Guantanamo Bay on Saturday, but the commander at Guantanamo has the most insightful observation:
"They are smart, they are creative, they are committed," [Rear Adm. Harry] Harris said. "They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."
So these combatants are no different from their suicide bomber brethren, even in terms of the intended impact: world opinion. (At least this time there were no civilian casualties.)
Bad for them: the impact is being muted by the contemporaneous victory over Zarqawi in Iraq. That must be a disappointment to the neck-stretched threesome from their new vantage point in Hades.
Posted by Alan at June 11, 2006 09:44 AM