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To: Sam who wrote (220782)	2/24/2007 5:42:42 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Again, not really. Not even according to our own military commanders It's clear you haven't listened either to those commanders or to correspondants like John Burns. Saying that AQ doesn't make up a large percentage in numbers is not the same think AT ALL as saying they aren't an important component. They provide an irridentist fervor and nearly all the suicide bombers, almost none of whom have found to be Iraqi. Surely this last point alone is enough to prove their importance? Look there is no monolithic "Islamic extremism." Any more than there was, during the Cold War, a monolithic "Communist conspiracy." There are Islamic extremists of many different stripes So what? During the Cold War, Moscow funded local insurrections of all stripes and turned them communist and loyal to Moscow; now the various factions of Islamic extremism have no problem allying themselves across ideological divides wherever convenient. Look at how the secular Baathists are allied with Al Qaeda in Iraq; how secular Alawi Baathists in Syria are allied with Iran; how Shiite Iran has become Wahabbi Hamas' new big backer. If, as he said in this speech, the war in Iraq really is the front line in "the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century"; if our foes there are the "successors to Fascists, to Nazis, to Communists"; if victory is "as important" as it was in Omaha Beach and Guadalcanal—then those are just some of the steps that a committed president would feel justified in demanding. He should have rallied the American people and our allies! This is a great lack in Bush, his inability to use the bully pulpit. As for the draft, that's just anti-war posturing by the Dems. Any soldier will tell you that this war needs more skilled volunteer troops, not conscript canon fodder. It's a very different kind of war from the tank and infantry battles of WWII.

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