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...guerrilla attacks a day. The remnants of Saddam's regime that failed to fight for Baghdad had instead scattered and reorganized themselves, and they together with a wider group of Iraqi Islamists and nationalists and a smattering of foreign jihadis began an insurgency that appears to have taken root in many Sunni communities. The reach of its actions stretches from Mosul in the north to deep into the Shiite south, and it continues to launch repeated and increasingly brazen strikes in the capital...
...troops face a difficult task in trying to root out the violent insurgents who want to drive them out of Iraq. But in pursuing this deadly enemy, the Americans are frequently guilty of excesses that are turning ordinary Iraqis into foes. Bush's Thanksgiving visit meant little to Iraqis, who cite three areas of concern: the killing of innocents, the "disappearance" of countrymen detained by U.S. forces, and the destruction of buildings, including family homes. The last tactic, justified by U.S. commanders as legitimate demolition of military targets, is criticized by human-rights groups like Amnesty International as smacking...
...soil and committed the U.S. to seeing its mission through, the President will have little room to maneuver during the election campaign if he's faced with increasing calls to bring the troops home. If the American death toll slows, Saddam Hussein is found and democracy begins to take root, Bush won't need a campaign ad to make his point. But if Iraq gets worse instead of better, neither will his opponents...
Second, we need to find the right mix of forces. Iraqi and allied forces must take over the more routine tasks like border patrol, so that U.S. forces can focus on running an agile, intelligence-driven campaign to root out the remnants of Saddam’s regime. And we need the help of Iraq’s neighbors to close the borders to the jihadists pouring into Iraq...
...inequality in pursuit of a decent system of higher education may be no vice. There is a point at which too much democracy, like too much pastis before dinner, can lead to a kind of facile and simplistic drunkenness. For, though money may well be at the root of all evil, it can also pave the road to a greater justice, a more benevolent, though still imperfect, world. Indeed, the one major difference I have thus far seen between the supposedly "élite" university where I also teach - the Institut d'études Politiques de Paris, for which most must...