It's expensive to Jihad

From Doctor Bulldog:

This is a very long article about the changing situation in Iraq, im not going to go into too many details on the article, but one section sticks out at me and tells me that we are winning.

These days Rami gets most of his supplies from the new American-equipped Iraqi army. “We buy ammunition from officers in charge of warehouses, a small box of AK-47 bullets is $450 (£230). If the guy sells a thousand boxes he can become rich and leave the country.” But as the security situation deteriorates, Rami finds it increasingly difficult to travel across Baghdad. “Now I have to pay a Shia taxi driver to bring the ammo to me. He gets $50 for each shipment.”
The box of 700 bullets that Rami buys for $450 today would have cost between $150 and $175 a year ago. The price of a Kalashnikov has risen from $300 to $400 in the same period. The inflation in arms prices reflects Iraq’s plunge toward civil war but, largely unnoticed by the outside world, the Sunni insurgency has also changed. The conflict into which 20,000 more American troops will be catapulted over the next few weeks is very different to the one their comrades experienced even a year ago.

you see, a quick search over at Impact Guns shows that you can pick up an AK-47 for $450-800 and you can get a box of 1000 rounds for it for a mere $172.99... And remember, that is in America... a country that generally frowns on people owning AK-47s... now I know that those are only semi-auto civilian versions, but the point is the same... for the cost of weapons in Iraq to go up over 200% in a year, that means that there is a much smaller supply... which to me means that we are having a significant impact on the ability of the terrorists to acquire weapons. And no matter how you look at it, that is a good thing, hopefully one day it will be more expensive to fight than it is to be nice.