Update on the War on Terrorism: Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Libya

     There have been no United States troops killed in Iraq during the entire month of August. This good news suggests the success of the American policy to defeat Islamist militants, restore Iraqi security and allow the Iraqi people to exercise self-determination.

     Unlike in Afghanistan, the Philippines and Iraq, there have been no American casualties (killed, wounded or captured, either in action or by other means) in Somalia (since the Somali Civil War was subsumed into the War on Terrorism), Yemen or Libya. Although it is not unprecedented in American history, it is unusual that a war is fought without any casualties for the U.S. Three at one time without any American casualties is extraordinary. Even if they are considered campaigns in the War on Terrorism, as they should, it is extraordinary nonetheless. See also my posts from June, The Libyan and Yemeni Wars Are Not the Third and Fourth U.S. Wars, http://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2011/06/libyan-and-yemeni-wars-are-not-third.html, and Follow-Up to the Number of U.S. Wars, http://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2011/06/follow-up-on-number-of-us-wars.html.

     I had posted Part I of an intended series on the U.S. involvement in the Libyan Civil War, A Conservative Refutation of Isolationists on the Libyan Civil War in April http://williamcinfici.blogspot.com/2011/04/conservative-refutation-of.html, but the war settled into a long stalemate until recent developments. I made notes for Parts II and III, but have yet to complete them. I still intend to post them, so please visit again soon. Part II will address the Libyan connection the War on Terrorism and compare the Libyan Civil War to the current strife in Yemen and Syria. Part III will be focused on Constitutional and legal matters regarding the war, which is especially applicable to other interventions in general.