This Isn't Civil War

Wall Street Journal ^ | August 28, 2007 | CARTER ANDRESS

[AncientAirs]

Just as the rockets landing in the Green Zone are from a foreign source -- Iran -- the jihadis who destroy themselves in explosions aimed primarily at mass killings of Shia civilians are almost all foreigners. This is al Qaeda, not Iraq.

Even more to the point: The Iraqis basically ignore the al Qaeda car bombs, mourn the dead and then go to work, to school, join and continue to serve in the military and police -- and life goes on. There is no terror if no one is terrorized.

Let us, the American people, not be terrorized into retreating before our enemy -- al Qaeda -- just when they have begun to stand alone, stripped of allies, in a country beginning to enjoy the fruits of a democracy we have sacrificed much blood to help create

[AncientAirs]

Mr. Andress, CEO and principal owner of American-Iraqi Solutions Group, is author of "Contractor Combatants: Tales of an Imbedded Capitalist" (Thomas Nelson, 2007).

Google for entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118826659303110584.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[Rocko]

For subscribers only, unfortunately.

[AncientAirs]

The Google reference no longer works.

[onedoug]

The real civil war is going on right here in America. It just hasn’t gone overtly violent yet, probably because the left lacks guns.

[JimRed]

The real civil war is going on right here in America. It just hasn’t gone overtly violent yet, probably because the left lacks guns.

That is why they are desperate to disarm US! Which begs the question, what will they fight us with when it hits the fan?

[JasonC]

Snide leading editorials of course. And body odor.