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Article: Phase II and Iraq
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 13, 2002
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As military operations in Afghanistan wind down, it is well to
keep in mind President Bush's injunction that they are only the first
battles of a long war.
An important step has been taken toward the goals of breaking the
nexus between governments and the terrorist groups they support or
tolerate, discrediting Islamic fundamentalism so that moderates in
the Islamic world can reclaim their religion from the fanatics, and
placing the fight against terrorism in the context of the
geopolitical threat of Saddam Hussein's Iraq to regional stability
and to American friends and interests in the region. But much more
needs to be done.
Were we to flinch, the success in Afghanistan would be interpreted ...