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Unanswered Prayers
By Michael A. Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute
November 16, 2006
Will the Baker/Hamilton Commission Get This War Right?
Instead of trapping themselves in an imaginary quagmire, the commissioners can help us face the real war. Whats going on in Iraq is not the war, which is raging over the entire world. The real question--the life and death question--is: How can we win the war in the Middle East, which now extends from Afghanistan to Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, and Somalia?
That question forces us to devise a strategy to deal with multiple enemies instead of limiting our strategic thinking to the Iraqi insurgency alone. It forces us to confront the terror masters in Tehran and Syria as well as the killers in Iraq. If we ask how to win in Iraq alone, we are led into a fools errand of trying to convince our sworn enemies--Iran has been at war with us for twenty-seven years--to act like friends. But if we ask how to win the war, we can see that we have many good cards to play, and many real allies, from the Iranian and Syrian people to the millions of Kurds in Iran, Iraq and Syria, to several other oppressed groups throughout the region, and even to leaders who today denounce us.
for full article:
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.25146,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
By Michael A. Ledeen, American Enterprise Institute
November 16, 2006
Will the Baker/Hamilton Commission Get This War Right?
Instead of trapping themselves in an imaginary quagmire, the commissioners can help us face the real war. Whats going on in Iraq is not the war, which is raging over the entire world. The real question--the life and death question--is: How can we win the war in the Middle East, which now extends from Afghanistan to Lebanon, Iraq, Israel, and Somalia?
That question forces us to devise a strategy to deal with multiple enemies instead of limiting our strategic thinking to the Iraqi insurgency alone. It forces us to confront the terror masters in Tehran and Syria as well as the killers in Iraq. If we ask how to win in Iraq alone, we are led into a fools errand of trying to convince our sworn enemies--Iran has been at war with us for twenty-seven years--to act like friends. But if we ask how to win the war, we can see that we have many good cards to play, and many real allies, from the Iranian and Syrian people to the millions of Kurds in Iran, Iraq and Syria, to several other oppressed groups throughout the region, and even to leaders who today denounce us.
for full article:
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.25146,filter.all/pub_detail.asp
