A Desperate Plea?

Osama bin Laden's latest video contains the following excerpt:

"Don't be arrogant," bin Laden warned. "Your enemies are trying to break up the jihadi groups. I urge you all to work in one united group."

American Thinker's Rick Moran summarizes the message this way:

You know you're winning when your enemy starts to get desperate.

There is still, obviously, a lot of work left to be done against the insurgency in Iraq, but the toll taken on terrorist networks there in recent months in undeniable:

There is widespread agreement that AQI has suffered major blows over the past three months. Among the indicators cited is a sharp drop in suicide bombings, the group's signature attack, from more than 60 in January to around 30 a month since July. Captures and interrogations of AQI leaders over the summer had what a senior military intelligence official called a "cascade effect," leading to other killings and captures. The flow of foreign fighters through Syria into Iraq has also diminished

There is no way to know exactly when this message was recorded, but put into the current context, it certainly appears that bin Laden is starting to sweat.

Good. Ready or not, here we come. Just ask Saddam.

There's my two cents.