This is an excellent article. Thanks for posting it.
In all of this horror, we mustn't lose sight of the fact that we're being played. Nick Berg's death is a sideshow, and so are the Iraqi prisoners' abuses, etc.. We're in this for the long haul. We have to set up a democracy in Iraq, so that the Middle East will look around and see that they can live decent lives in this world and not wake up every morning feeling so inferior (and rightfully so, alas), that strapping on a bomb and blowing themselves up along with everyone else is the highlight of their day. Thank God we have adults in charge of this country who know that unless we prosecute the war against terror to the fullest, we will cease to exist as a nation, as will all of western civilization.