The carnage worsens

In the war that nobody wants to talk about anymore, Wednesday was even worse than Tuesday. 11 G.I.s were killed.

Iraqi guerrillas killed 11 US troops on Wednesday, one of the highest tolls in a single day seen in the course of the war. Since October 1, some 70 US troops have been killed. This level of violence resembles November, 2004, when the US invaded the small city of Fallujah to the west of Baghdad. Some of the spike in the deaths of GIs comes from the "Battle for Baghdad," their attempt to sweep Sunni Arab districts of the capital to root out guerrilla cells. But some of it probably comes from adaptations and better tactics of the guerrillas. Although the US military blames it in part on Ramadan, I can't see what that would have to do with it.