Inevitable?

From the Belmont Club

The initial vision behind Operation Iraqi Freedom was to provide an democratic alternative to the Muslim world. And the question implicit in any "redeployment" strategy or change in direction is quo vadis? Do we really mean to take on radical Islam in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Europe? Because they will still be there however far one flees from Iraq. And how do we intend to fight them in those places? If the West could not bear to abandon a "catch and release" policy in Iraq do they expect it to be implemented in Western Europe? Now that Iran has decided to destablize Afghanistan by supporting even forces traditionally unfriendly to it, for so long as they attacked Americans, we now have a reprise of the Iraq in Southwest Asia with Iran and Afghanistan playing the roles of Iran and Syria. Given there is no prospect of cleaning up the Taliban hiding in Pakistan, what is the way forward in Afghanistan that is not different from the way forward in Iraq?

There is no escape from the current conflict. There is nowhere to withdraw. The West must find a way to defeat a networked radical Islamic threat one way or the other or leave the planet. The jihadis have every intention of inheriting the earth.

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