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Many commentators familiar with American history are rightly concerned that the American people might not be willing to continue the war on terror long enough to perform a thorough attitude adjustment on an Arab tribal culture which well pre-dates Islam. They err in feeling that the result might be cessation of the effort and reversion to isolationism. This arises in part because of a short-sighted focus on America’s most recent major war, in Vietnam, but also because these commentators don't understand the bloody obvious (i.e., they assume that the terrorists will stop attacking us just because we stop fighting them),...

(Captain's log): Aziz H. Poonawalla writes: Your essays are probably the most exhaustively argued, for the pro-attack camp. But, they are spread out all over the place. Is it possible to simply list in 4 or 5 numbered points the reasons why you favor attack in Iraq? as best as I can tell, they seem to be: 1. Iraq has WMD2. Iraq will get WMD3. Iraq will give WMD to terrorists4. Iraq has used WMD against his own people5. Iraq is not deterrable6. ??? are these accurate? oversimplified? And is your support of attacking Iraq contingent on all of these,...