This morning's suicide bombing in Iraq killed at least 70 people. In one attack. We have no control over the situation there, no matter how it is spun. Put in perspective, 50 are killed in London and everybody goes into cardiac arrest. Iraqi civilians are being killed at a rate of close to 20 per day. This cannot continue. Terrorists WILL win because the Iraqi people will soon be willing to do anything to be safe from these attacks. We have no intel, never have had, and perhaps never will have. It has been faulty since the 90s. The CIA is so disfunctional that the wife of some defrocked ambassador can get him sent on a secret mission. The wife had him sent at who knows what salary. Nepotism like that would get you fired from most corporations who do not operate in secret. CIA, a secret organization charged with defense of our country apparently has no problem with it.

Again, my POV on these terror groups: killing a so-called leader does no good at all. The Israelis have just killed Hamas leader number 27 and those cells will still function. The only way killing a leader would work is if the leader were either the sole source of money or a main source---killing binLadin a few years back would have had an affect. These cells, once created, need no leadership. They get help from other cells as they go along. So far as the Brit thing goes, there is the possibility that the four young men were killed by someone else within the cell who planned to detonate the bombs from long distance all along. The young men may have only intended to plant explosive charges in the trains and then get off.