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...fear is that these radicals could incite more suicide bombings aimed at U.S. troops. Yet it's far from certain that these groups could combine to form a significant threat. Hizballah and the Islamic Jihad share few values with Saddam's Baathist nationalists. And Iraqi Shi'ites and Iranian Shi'ites are not ideological soul mates; fears after Gulf War I that the two would join up to carve out a separate state aligned with Iran proved to be unfounded...
...Iraqi people, it just isn't clear that they're particularly happy about all this. The Kurds are thrilled; the Shi'ites will not lament Saddam's passing--but there is understandable caution and fear about what comes next. There may well be jubilation when the last of the Baathist thugs has been routed, but those scenes have already been neutered in the Islamic world by the--outrageously distorted--images of American violence and, more problematically, by the plain fact that infidels have made war on an Islamic state. (One imagines that even the Kurds and Shi'ites have understandable...
...Also insecure is the town of Safwan. This was the first town taken last week -but now armed Baathist party members have regrouped, and last night were about to attack a group of journalists camped out near that town until the British military told the reporters to leave quickly, under the cover of darkness. They spent an uncomfortable night further up the road to Nasiriyah before being evaucated to Kuwait this morning by a military convoy...
When Bush called Iraq part of the “axis of evil,” he was being practical, not imperialistic. By acknowledging that Saddam’s dictatorship is mired in bloody Baathist ideology and a hateful doctrine of racial superiority, Bush acknowledges that in the interest of peace Saddam must go. This is a difficult judgment to make, that sometimes a nation’s leader is so corrupted by evil that justice cannot prevail under his rule. Bush has reserved such a judgment only for the world’s most repressive dictatorships. The peace protesters...
...Hussein that history, truth and values must all be erased and superceded according to the needs of the Revolution, which seeks to achieve an era of global Arab domination. Saddam has stated that the goal of Revolution “is ascension, ascension and ascension.” The Baathist ideology issues a call for bloodshed in ever-widening conflict that disregards law and permits the mass murder of racially inferior groups. Only in recent years has Saddam clothed this originally secular ideology in Islamic religious language to convey his vision...