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To: Road Walker who wrote (413914)	9/5/2008 9:41:21 AM
From: Joe NYC	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 1576163

John, They did lose some reputation and respect... but Iraq made them stronger overall. And it also changed the ME political balance, not for the better. As you say "at enormous cost to the US". It made AQ stronger only temporarily. When Zarqawi temporarily became (more or less) the leader of the opposition to the US invasion. But currently? Not at all. As far as ME political balance, I look at it as Maliki vs. Saddam. A democratically elected leader of the US favorable to the US vs. a murderous tyrant who paid cash for terrorist attacks. While I am not too crazy about the way we got from there to where we are now, I see an enormous improvement. But again, at enormous cost to the US. Bottom line is that Americans have always had more to fear from each other than from AQ. We do more damage to each other every week than AQ did with their one successful strike. When you try to minimize the risk of violent islam, you completely lose me. Violent Islam has been the biggest threat to the world for almost 1500 years. And it will continue to be so. Joe

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