[Dean's World] Dave Price: Iraq No Longer Our Main Concern?

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Posted by Dave Price:
Iraq No Longer Our Main Concern?
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1202839323.shtml


   Victor Hanson [1]argues the West has bigger worries now:

     For all the Western gloom, the forces trying to break up Iraq are
     not as strong as the fears of seeing it so trisected. Federal Iraq
     has survived Iranian subterfuge, the House of Saud terrorist
     subsidies, Turkish invasion, and Kurdish nationalism â and is still
     there. It wonât be quite Kansas, but the Iraqi state has a good
     chance to evolve into something no more violent than the usual
     Middle Eastern state, but without either murderous dictators or
     theocrats â or, of course, the genocidal murderer Saddam Hussein.
     ...
     The combination of new American tactics, the surge, shared fear of
     Iran, vast oil revenues, sheer attrition of jihadists over the last
     five years, and growing Iraqi hatred of Wahhabi terrorists over the
     same period, have all led to a perfect storm for al-Qaeda. It now
     suffers the almost unbelievable humiliation of having Arab Muslims
     willingly join Americans to expel it from the ancient caliphate.
     ...
     In the last analysis, the real worries about the survival of the
     West in this war are not with America and its courageous
     twenty-something suburban kids in Anbar trying to offer something
     better than the sharia morality of the seventh century, but with
     the likes of sanctimonious and cowardly churchmen in England trying
     to spread it.

References

   1. http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=OThkYTMwN2UwNDlmNjdlZjRkNjcwZDRhNDBmY2QxZmU