You Don't Shit Where You Eat
Via Winds of Change, here's an interesting story in today's Washington Post that explains what's going on in Fallujah. Apparently, Mo's getting The Idea through his thick skull.

Local insurgents in the city of Fallujah are turning against the foreign fighters who have been their allies in the rebellion that has held the U.S. military at bay in parts of Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland, according to Fallujah residents, insurgent leaders and Iraqi and U.S. officials.

Relations are deteriorating as local fighters negotiate to avoid a U.S.-led military offensive against Fallujah, while foreign fighters press to attack Americans and their Iraqi supporters. The disputes have spilled over into harsh words and sporadic violence, with Fallujans killing at least five foreign Arabs in recent weeks, according to witnesses.

Even the run-of-the-mill vermin who inhabit Fallujah know that they cannot actually defeat us and realize, instead, that their homes and their lives are not going to be worth anything if they can't figure out a way to be done with the "insurgents" in their midst.

Because, one way or the other, you filthy rats, your city will come around.

Several local leaders of the insurgency say they, too, want to expel the foreigners, whom they scorn as terrorists. They heap particular contempt on Abu Musab Zarqawi, the Jordanian whose Monotheism and Jihad group has asserted responsibility for many of the deadliest attacks across Iraq, including videotaped beheadings.

Bad PR, eh? If you're not willing to help the authorities drive these animals out, Uncle Sam will come and put a 500-pounder through the roof of your shack.

Oh, yes. The picture's getting much clearer now.