While the article does find some highlights in GEN McCaffrey's points, I found the comments on the growing, strengthening insurgency most interesting. You don't see articles on the insurgency itself, imagine headlines like "3,000 foreign fighters arrive in Iraq today, living conditions are tough, but the fighters are excited about starting operations"
McCaffrey is gloomy about the continuing strength of the insurgency. At this point, he said, about 27,000 fighters are being held, and at least 20,000 others have been killed, yet enemy combatants continue to produce new leaders and foot soldiers. The result, five years into the war, he said, is that "their sophistication, numbers and lethality go up -- not down -- as they incur these staggering battle losses."
