[DoughtyOne]

Well for your sake and the sake of the future of the United States, I hope you are wrong. If the United States does not install a viable government in Iraq, then the war on terrorism is lost. There will be no eradication of terrorists. There will be no peace in the middle-east or outside of it. And that means your local neighborhood will become a terrorist zone, with restaurants, theaters, grocery stores and the like experincing the same bombings that Israel has experienced for decades.

This is for keeps.

[yonif]

One problem is that the US is looking at Iraq as a localized war. The fact is that it is a war taking up by the Arab and Islamic world. They are sending arms, people, and most importantly using their ideology and totalitarian states to brainwash people in their own countries against the war. The US needs to declare enemy also those terror regimes from the outside of Iraq who are flocking to Iraq to murder Americans and could care less about the former Baathist state.

[Alberta's Child]

My local neighborhood could become a "terrorist zone" tomorrow, regardless of what happens in Iraq. The notion that terrorists require a state sponsor like Iraq is a silly one.