(US News) Julian E. Barnes - Gen. John Abizaid, commander of all U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, explains why the radical Islamist insurgents must be confronted. "What we can't allow to happen is guys like Abu Musab Zarqawi to get started," Abizaid said. "It's the same way that we turned our back when Hitler was getting going and Lenin was getting going. You just cannot turn your back on these types of people. You have to stand up and fight." America has a chance to confront and stop an Islamic extremist movement akin to fascism or communism in its early stages, the general believes, before it metastasizes and dominates a significant chunk of the world.
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