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...Iraq has proven to be a slow and exceedingly difficult process. A budding insurgency has led to a fracturing of the coalition’s control of the region, and American credibility, which was already suffering, has taken further hits. As feared, Iraq has become a rallying point for terrorist recruitment throughout the Middle East. It was recently revealed that a classified C.I.A. report is predicting that Iraq may be on the verge of descending into civil war. Perhaps partially due to those fears, the U.S. announced aggressive new plans to take back rebel-held areas such as Falluja...
...long run, bowing out prematurely would only compound America’s troubles in the war on terror. Strategically, it would cause irreparable harm to U.S. credibility. In addition, the environment likely to result from a failed Iraqi state is precisely the kind in which terrorist groups would thrive. What is needed, though, is not a continuation of the failed strategy of Secretary Rumsfeld’s Pentagon. Instead, we must continue to look for new methods to minimize casualties and damage. Rule of law must be emphasized above all to distinguish the new government from regimes of the past...
Sooner or later terrorist minds will find a way to infiltrate our security measures, just as they have done in Madrid, Beslan, Saudi Arabia, and many other places. The terrorist that is killed or captured is almost instantaneously replaced by tens of young men and women eager to continue the job, proving that the spirit of terror lives on after terrorists...
There is almost a universal consensus that evil minds are not born, but rather made. There are factors and conditions that make the creation of such evil easier and more probable. Poverty, injustice, and ignorance are factors which help develop the terrorist mentality and the mentality which sympathizes with contemporary terrorism...
Meanwhile, in the real world, Russia was recovering from a horrific terrorist attack that left at least 338 dead--mostly children--which put an exclamation point on the President's claim that we are fighting a global war against terrorism. At the same time, though, the U.S. military acknowledged the sobering fact that there were now "no-go" zones in Iraq, areas the U.S. had ceded to the terrorists--much of the so-called Sunni triangle, for example--which put a question mark on the President's claim that he was aggressively fighting that...