Rocking The Cradle

clipped from sisu.typepad.com "While there were terrible errors made in going to war in Iraq, the decision to go to war was not one of them," continues Crittenden, making sense of all that we wish our fearless but inarticulate leader, GW, had been able to convey to us and our fellow Americans during the last period of time: Iraq has become the central battlefield in the 21st century's Islamic war, and may have been destined to be, with or without us. Lying geographically, ideologically, and culturally athwart the Middle East, rich in resources and boiling with rage long before we got there, it is the place where the war will either be settled or truly begun. It is a fitting role for the cradle of civilization to host a war in which the very progress of civilization is being challenged. Saddam Hussein convinced the world he had active weapons programs. The evidence now suggests he didn't, but how active his programs were, ultimately, is irrelevant. He had demonstrated his desire to dominate the region.