Iraq options

If We Don?t Win, We Lose
Cal Thomas
Syndicated Columnist
November 27, 2006

The war is going badly and it’s our fault. Our enemies saw the democrats’ election victory as an indication we don’t have the will to win. By mid-December, the Iraq study group co-headed by Jim Baker, who is no friend of Israel and who does business in the Arab world, will issue its report.
There are really only two options: victory or surrender. We have not committed the troops necessary to secure victory and the crazy religious nuts in Iraq are on the edge of a civil war, if they have not already crossed over the edge. Prime Minister al-Mailiki apparently does not have the strength, or the will, to disarm the militias and a reported 1,000 Iraqis per day are leaving Baghdad. That will allow even more fanatics to move in.

Iran and Syria are meeting and Iraq will send a representative. That can not be good news for anyone who backs democracy. Defeat will mean a major terrorist state with ramifications for the United States, Israel and the world. Radical Islam is a virus and it’s spreading. Enough about this so-called “peaceful religion.” They have us figured out better than we have figured them out. If we don’t win, we lose.

Cal Thomas is a nationally syndicated columnist based in Washington, D.C.