Islam teaches that an attack on one Islamic nation is an attack on ALL Islamic nations.
Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Iran, Yemen, Qatar, Turkey ALL view Iraq as being predominently an Islamic nation.
Osama bin Ladin used this Islamic code to marshall Muslim jihad support throughout the Middle Eastern Islamic countries.
This war will further fan the flames of Islamic jihad against Britian and the United States - for the far foreseeable future, and regardless of the outcome of national reform or whatever type of government replaces the Saddam regime in Iraq.
Islam views this as a holy war. We view it as a war with political implications necessary to bring about social change (e.g., don't jihad N.Y.C. anymore, O.K.!).
The two opposing views between Islam and the West will not be reconciled by ANYTHING the coalition offers the Iraqis (food, new commerce, reinvented economy, even freedom from torturous tyrants such as Saddam and his henchmen).
A tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable or to take the gloomiest possible view: “We have seen too much defeatism, too much pessimism, too much of a negative approach” (Margo Jones).