Unfortunately, the broader jihad goal of dragging the US into a bloody civil war and thereby duplicating Vietnam conditions, as a prerequisite for a US defeat, is ignored by press and pundits alike. By never discussing the goals of the "greater jihad," we prevent ourselves from developing the strategic counter goals necessary to defeat it, or even to contain it. From the [1] BBC, :

Thirteen people have died in a car bomb attack on a crowded market in southern Baghdad and a suicide bomber later attacked police in the city centre.

The market bomb was hidden in a parked car near Diyala Bridge, a largely Shia area of the Iraqi capital...