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The views expressed by military author and analyst, retired retired Air Force Lt. Gen. McInerney would, if correct, be very good news. From the Washington Times:
The war in Iraq is increasingly looking more like a showdown with Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda followers than a battle primarily against Saddam Hussein loyalists.
...”In the Muslim world and extremist world, this fight for Iraq is their key battle,” said Gen. McInerney. “If they lose it, they lose the war. And so the imams are inciting young people, not particular well-educated, to head to Iraq. Most are going through Syria via Damascus.
“This is why Iraq is such a fundamental part of the global war on terrorism. When we finally defeat Muslim extremists, it will be the battle in Iraq that defeats them.”
...Since the January elections of the new Iraqi parliament, Zarqawi’s suicide terrorists have unleashed more than 100 car bombings, killing hundreds.
On the plus side for the U.S., it is receiving a record number of intelligence tips from Iraqis that have resulted in scores of captures of Zarqawi’s terrorists.
It appears to me that the terrorists will eventually lose in Iraq. For that to mean the end of Al Qaeda as well, seems perhaps too good to be true.
However, it does support one of the reasons I cited in support of the war in Iraq:
The terrorists are tied up attacking our army there, rather than our civilians here.
