War and those who wage it

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Pierce, Pierce, Pierce -- in post 14, you show us you don't understand that Iraq is a campaign, a theater, in the overall war, which for convenience rather than pedantic precision we call the War on Terror.

Much of it is a civil war within Islam about what its shape is to be in the 21st century. However, it does involve our interests strongly also.

If it's against a not-democracy, war's justifiable. As to whether it's automatically justified, I'd have to say, "Er." But do keep in mind that all of our major foreign-policy problems come out of the not-democracies. The particular trouble spots are still likeliest in the Non-Integrating Gap nations. Expect the shooting there, and expect we'll be doing some of it -- at some pretty loathesome outfits, too.

In Iraq, we neither rushed nor hesitated, and we took down an organized regional troublemaker before he could aspire to Hitlerian-scale conquests. That in consequence of this wise and timely action, we are dealing with Sevareid's Law, well, we just have to struggle through it.