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Six Years Without Attack Have Confused How We Must Fight
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 11, 2007 09:24pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Richmond Times-Dispatch |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 11, 2007 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | There are no quick or easy answers in Iraq or in the broader war against transnational terrorism. Succumbing to self-delusion ("If we quit Iraq, radical Muslims will stop hating us") and indulging false choices ("The real war is in Afghanistan") only abrogates our responsibility to confront the many, more nuanced issues affecting our national security in the post-9/11 world: an emboldened, nuclear Iran, a resurgent Taliban, a divided Palestinian government, and our continued dependence on foreign oil as our economic lifeblood.
THE LOSS of a strategic perspective and a return to dysfunction as usual in Washington may be a natural reaction to the grim challenges of a generational struggle against a shadowy global nemesis. We crave the normalcy of a more peaceful age. Wars, even cold ones, have to end. But, as in the almost 50-year contest against Soviet communism, our normalcy has to be defined by a constant vigilance and a willingness to use all the instruments of national power, not just the military, to advance the cause of human freedom. The same strategic rules apply: maintain security, grow the economy, protect civil liberties, and vocally join the public battle of ideas.
As a nation with global responsibilities, we need to climb out of the domestic political trenches and reclaim the high ground so dearly purchased six years ago. We do the victims of 9/11 a great disservice if we do not take bipartisan steps toward regaining that strategic perspective. |
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