War doesn't just boil.
Isn't there something weird, something downright suspicious and alarming, about the steady pace of violence savaging Iraq at this moment? War is not a steady state of civic chaos. Skirmishes are either random scrapes or probes for battle. Maybe revolutionaries and spies use sabotage as a strategy, but for generals, sabotage is only a softening tactic. Do we desperately believe that our enemy has no generals, then? Is this "war" all fuse and no charge? Can we deliberate over tea while the enemy sits in the waiting room? Is the enemy for real, or is it now the mission of the United States military to kindle world-wide hell at our leisure?
Who is this enemy that has no generals but cannot be vanquished by the greatest killing power ever assembled?
