President Bush speaks to soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Divisiontoday at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.
From The New York Times:
After spending a week traveling the frontline of the “war on terrorism” — from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Ronald Reagan in the seas off Iran, to northern Iraq, to Afghanistan and into northwest Pakistan — I can comfortably report the following: The bad guys are losing.
Yes, the dominos you see falling in the Muslim world today are the extremist Islamist groups and governments. They have failed to persuade people by either their arguments or their performances in power that their puritanical versions of Islam are the answer. Having lost the argument, though, the radicals still hang on thanks to gun barrels and oil barrels — and they can for a while.
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My Comment: Tom Friedman's assessment is accurate, but he leaves out how our allies and the U.S. military and intelligence services got us to where we are today .... in particular .... he does not mention one name .... President Bush.
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