Blair's Rallying Call
Tony Blair, writing in The Observer on this Easter Sunday, explains why the coalition should stay the course in Iraq:
We are locked in a historic struggle in Iraq. On its outcome hangs more than the fate of the Iraqi people. Were we to fail, which we will not, it is more than 'the power of America' that would be defeated. The hope of freedom and religious tolerance in Iraq would be snuffed out. Dictators would rejoice; fanatics and terrorists would be triumphant. Every nascent strand of moderate Arab opinion, knowing full well that the future should not belong to fundamentalist religion, would be set back in bitter disappointment.
On the other side of the Atlantic, Victor Davis Hanson makes very similar points in urging Americans to quit the hysteria and focus on getting the job done:
We did not ask for this war, but it came. In our time and according to our station, it is now our duty to end it. And that resolution will not come from recrimination in time of war, nor promises to let fundamentalists and their autocratic sponsors alone, but only through the military defeat and subsequent humiliation of their cause. So let us cease the hysterics, make the needed sacrifices, and allow our military the resources, money, and support with which it most surely will destroy the guilty and give hope at last to the innocent.
To round it off, Andrew Sullivan in his Sunday Times column, assesses whether Iraq resembles Vietnam, deftly turns that argument on its head and offers some advice to John Kerry.
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