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Rockets launched from donkey carts. Explosives hidden in the carcasses of roadkill. Land mines taken apart and converted for attacks.

The U.S. military dismissed the tactics Friday as "militarily insignificant," though it acknowledged an "inventive, ingenious" adversary exploiting U.S. weaknesses.

David. Goliath.

Yes, I think you'd better acknowledge that, if nothing else, the tactics are managing to damage the foreign invaders' living/operating quarters, with a definite possibility of killing them, and also get the attention of the world.

"They're trying to break our will. They're trying to seize the headlines ... but they're militarily insignificant," Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the U.S. military deputy director for operations, said of Friday's attacks.

However, Kimmitt acknowledged the attacks point to "a very clever enemy who knows that we don't have the best intelligence in the world" and is cleverly exploiting "some vulnerabilities."

Whoaaaa. An admission that military intelligence is an oxymoron?

I might have phrased it a little differently...we don't have much intelligence. Period.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.