Michael YonMichael Yon has posted part two of Bread and a Circus. Don’t miss reading this one as you’ll get a real feel for just how much is left to be accomplished after the main shooting stops. You can defeat the enemy but you can’t win the war until the liberated are fed, you convince them that the enemy isn’t coming back and when they perceive their lives beginning to have some normalcy. With General Petraeus, these strategies are finally being put into play. And, it wouldn’t be a Michael Yon piece unless you were given some unique insight in the war.

And so we started with 16 trucks, but before it was all over, they had sent 94 trucks of food to Baqubah. There was enough food, according to our Army, to feed 200,000 people for 30 days.

I recalled one of the bureaucrat’s comments, upon hearing that al Qaeda had scattered like rabbits out of Baqubah. He seemed at first not to believe that news, but once he got confirmation, he made a point to tell us what that news actually meant: if al Qaeda was done in Baqubah, al Qaeda was done in Iraq.

From his lips to God’s ears . . .

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