Today's Headlines - Same Old, Same Old

We can't say we weren't warned. These guys told us a year or more back that they were going to step up the suicide bombings. The Iranians, a few years back held a weekend suicide conference and recruiting drive at a major university.

Bombings in Afghanistan Kill 5

A suicide car bomber attacked a government building Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, killing a policeman a day after a similar blast left four people — including two NATO soldiers — dead.

5 Killed in Pakistan Suicide Bombings

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up on the premises of a naval college Tuesday, killing five people and wounding 13 in the eastern city of Lahore, officials said.

You know international television coverage gave the jihadists the idea that this particular tactic is a sensational winner, guaranteed to make the evening news. They believe there is nothing like the pandemonium of a bombing scene with the wail of sirens and survivors to frighten a people into submission. For good measure attack the subsequent funeral processions and occasionally throw down carnage on a wedding party. This is their recipe for success. Forget about hearts and minds, go for the blood and gore.

Seems to me that suicide terror bombings will inevitably result in the opposite of the intended affect. Eventually sympathizers realize what kind of bravo sierra the Ali Babas are blowing up in the neighborhood. But survival is number one and without the security which protects and defends, people will do whatever they need to do to get by. That's one of the COIN lessons we had to relearn in Iraq.

Then you have the ongoing clown show in South America.

Colombia: Chavez Funding FARC Rebels

Venezuela and Ecuador sought Monday to make Colombia pay a high price for killing a leftist rebel leader in the Ecuadorean jungle — expelling its diplomats, ordering troops to the border and cracking down on trade across the border.

But Colombia quickly struck back, revealing what it said were incriminating documents seized from the rebel camp that suggest its neighbors have been secretly supporting the leftist rebels' deadly insurgency.

And in a tit-for-tat move, Venezuela later displayed the laptop of a slain drug trafficker, which it said contained information implicating Colombia's national police chief in the cocaine trade.