Global Conflict

Michael Ledeen over at NRO puts his finger on the real question that needs to be answered by the Iraq Study Group.

Instead of trapping themselves in an imaginary quagmire, the commissioners can help us face the real war. What’s 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?

I have long believed that Iraq was just one battle in the global war against terrorism. Just as we had to defeat the enemy on Tarawa, Iwo Jima, and Guadalcal in order to win WWII, today, we must defeat the enemy in Iraq in order to win this global war against Islamofascism. In other words, Iraq is just the beginning, not the end.