[Mb-civic] The True War: Within, and for, Islam - Washington post

[William Swiggard]

The True War: Within, and for, Islam

By Jim Hoagland
Thursday, July 14, 2005; Page A25

History is so much wet cement for presidents and presidencies. You are 
stamping a footprint on immortality one minute, stuck firmly and ignobly 
the next if you don't move quickly enough.

George W. Bush has reached that point in his global war on terrorism. 
His initial use of the phrase and the concept rallied a dazed nation 
against a movement of killers who had been picking off Americans and 
others without retribution. Bush's inspirational abilities, and the 
ineptness of his opponents, won him reelection.

<>But the terrorist assault in London last week -- and the composed 
manner in which the British capital responded -- helps paradoxically to 
demonstrate that Bush needs to adjust strategy to the changed global 
conditions his policies have produced. So does the course of the 
continuing war in Iraq.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071301990.html?nav=hcmodule 

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