Reverse Fly Paper

There were a bunch of headlines the other day about al Qaeda's number two guy announcing, or denoucing, the Democrats plans for a timeline to leave Iraq. His reasoning was that he wanted the U.S. to stay bogged down in Iraq so it could be drained of it's resources and destroyed.

Juan Cole makes the point that this is essentially the "fly-paper" strategy ..... in reverse! Kind of an interesting thought, but it's true that if you put fly paper in place by actually, like, grabbing the fly paper yourself, don't you get stuck too? Except in this case, al Qaeda has a lot less to lose being stuck in a death struggle with the U.S. in Iraq.