(Boston Globe) Jeff Jacoby - This is about more than Iraq. We are in a war against terrorism - more accurately, against radical Islamist terrorists and their state sponsors. Terrorists need territory for camps and safe havens, access to money and financial networks, weapons training, communication technology, travel documents, and more. None of those can reliably be had without institutional support - government support. Al Qaeda, Hizballah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas would not be nearly so deadly if it weren't for the regimes that sustain them.
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