Another U.S. soldier killed in Iraq....

it's worth remembering that the Irish Republican Army (the gold standard of urban guerillas, they make Hamas look like a bunch of feeble bums) took about a year to get up to speed after the events of "Bloody Sunday" on January 30th 1972.
Previous to that, the I.R.A. was a pretty amateurish operation especially in Northern Ireland characterized by eager untutored college students and mawkish pamphleteering.
Time, however, that mighty crucible of events, changed all that.
So what is no doubt being currently dismissed as "low intensity conflict" may well evolve into something more ominous and unpleasant come the summer of 2004.
Now...before we forget, as forget we will, just where is all that anthrax Colin Powell swore up and down was in Iraq ready for use?