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This article asserts that the war in Iraq cannot be won due to the Islamic rejection of democracy. Screw the Islamic extremists. They are our enemy, and they are the enemy of Iraq, and they are going to lose.

Millions of Iraqis who participated in democracy are muslim. The same occurs in Turkey. This idiotic notion that muslims are incapable of living in democracy is crap.

Turkey has been doing it since Mustafa Kamal. The only people that think Iraq cannot have democracy are those who believe the only Islam is extremist Islam. Islamic radicals are the enemy of the United States, and they are the enemy of Iraq.

Such are the terrorists who plant IEDs and car bombs. The good people who live in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, will eventually reject the terrorists. That is, unless we abandon them, which we must not do.

Good. 40 years of tyranny is more responsible for many problems than Islam. It is very debiitating to individuas and society. In both Iraq and Afghanistan we are combatting subversives from neighboring countries. Is that caused by Islam? But the biggest problem is our own expectations. Who put a deadline on this project? It took 10 years to get Germany and Japan on their feet and the projects were not overtly oppoed by neighbors.

A part of me wonders if we shouldn't give Iran and Syria something else to worry about. Pundits in penthouses are hopeless.