Chrenkoff Today: A Thousand Small Wins Can Create One Big Victory

It's a tough day with the news about 14 brave Marines being killed in an Amtrac. I'm struck, however, at how few of the victories are reported.

From Arthur Chrenkoff's Good News from Iraq, Part 31,  also carried by The Opinion Journal and Winds of Change, here are just a few. Note that the further we get away from Arthur's original massive file, the more dated the reports are. But this stuff is going on all the time:

"Iraqi Security Forces captured seven terror suspects June 30, all of whom are thought to be involved in plotting or carrying out attacks against Iraqi Police stations in central and south Baghdad";

"Iraqi Security Forces from the 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Division and Coalition forces from the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, uncovered seven weapons caches, a car-bomb factory and a roadside bomb making factory late afternoon on June 30 in the Industrial area, northeast of the Saddam Mosque during a patrol to disrupt terrorist activity... The Iraqi Soldiers discovered the car-bomb factory with a vehicle rigged with explosives at an automotive repair shop in Ramadi. A bomb-making factory was located at a second location with 45 fully prepared roadside bombs inside";

On 1 July, American troops operating outside the town in Hit in western Anbar province defused 9 roadside bombs and arrested 10 suspects; "Some Marines took some time out to e-mail family and friends from an Internet room at the school where the trigger wires for the roadside bombs were found";

Three weapons caches discovered by Task Force Baghdad soldiers on an island along the Tigris River near the city's Al Rashid district on July 1; another two caches uncovered the same day in Al Rashid itself and in Abu Ghraib...

Dot dot dot means there's a lot more like that.