This piece from the Counterterrorism Blog has gotten some blog play. LAT's praktike and Jim Henley add their voices to an excellent point about "flypaper". But I'm still thinking about drug trafficking and so this sentence stood out:

" There also seems little doubt that the ability of insurgents to move within Iraq or across the Syrian border has been significantly curtailed since the heydays of "steadfast Fallujah" last summer and fall. "

The insurgents can't move around the country, but the drug traffickers can?