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2007-10-09 Iraq

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Posted by 2007-10-09 00:20|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 The USA is very fortunate that Fouad Ajami has come to live in our country and has risen to such prominence. What a great writer. He has made a significant and positive contribution to the public debate about the War on Terrorism. He has made a real difference.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2007-10-09 01:05|| 2007-10-09 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Fouad Ajami is very fortunate that he has come to live in US, Mike. There is a degree of reciprocal, mutual benefit. You just can't separate one side of the coin from another.

Posted by twobyfour 2007-10-09 01:39|| http://www.twobyfour.info]">[http://www.twobyfour.info] 2007-10-09 01:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Iraqis of all stripes have now come to terms with their country's desperate need of American protection and patronage.

Mere assertion. Wishful thinking. Iraqis will happily destroy their entire country to ensure that the hated rivals can't enjoy even one drop of success.

Posted by gromky 2007-10-09 07:33|| 2007-10-09 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe. The jihadis certainly would. There are signs many of the Ba'thists are having second thoughts about that. But we'll see ....

Posted by lotp 2007-10-09 07:41|| 2007-10-09 07:41|| Front Page Top

#5 Mere assertion. Wishful thinking.

Fouad Ajami travels throughout Iraq and talks perceptively with Iraqis of all stripes. His evaluations on this subject are more than mere assertion and wishful thinking.

Posted by Mike Sylwester 2007-10-09 08:17|| 2007-10-09 08:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't see him moving back to Iraq.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-10-09 20:26|| 2007-10-09 20:26|| Front Page Top

#7 He's not from Iraq. He came through when I was there and someone from my office helped shepherd him around the country (this was two years back). He was disappointingly prickly and demanding in person, but I counseled my young colleague that he was worth it given his perceptive analysis and spectacular articulation.

Posted by Verlaine 2007-10-09 20:43|| 2007-10-09 20:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Dr. Ajami is a thoughtful and intelligent man who has maintained his optimism that Iraq would become a peaceful and stable nation over time. I hope he is proven correct, but I take a dimmer view of how the forces in play there would behave in the absence of such a robust American presence.

Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-10-09 21:22|| 2007-10-09 21:22|| Front Page Top

#9 Iraqis will happily destroy their entire country to ensure that the hated rivals can't enjoy even one drop of success.

Will?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-10-09 23:03|| 2007-10-09 23:03|| Front Page Top

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