But: Not far from Umm al-Fahm, there’s an Arab town called Kafr Kara. In Kafr Kara, there’s a bilingual school — Bridge Over the Wadi, it’s called — where some 200 children, Jewish and ...

Especially if U.S. troops have to fight inside Baghdad, the battle of Umm Qasr and the ambush of the 7 th Cav may be but mild previews of the fighting still to come.