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To: Bilow who wrote (153080)	12/4/2004 10:18:39 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 281500

It seems that many things you and I see differently, Carl, but one point on which I couldn't agree more is that going forward Iraqis will have to take over. They will have to start fighting their own wars - and running their own country. The success or failure by the Iraqis in establishing a stable government will have broad geopolitical implications. The alQaedista's, the Muslim Brothers - and other followers of Sayyid Qutb's philosophy - have their own preferred scenario for the direction the Muslim world should be taking, and if Iraq will emerge stable and successful out of the current war, that would present a threat - and a viable alternative - to their strategy. In other words, for the extremist Islamists that would be a huge defeat. That's why they are in Iraq today, fighting and giving their lives -- in order to prevent stabilization.