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br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell's Coalition of the Evil : /p>

The mush-mouthed appeasers of old Europe will not act in their own defense until the Islamofascist hordes enter Paris.

Against all odds, against popular opinion home and abroad, against Security Council wishes, against the liberal, agenda-driven MSM, President Bush and America's best allies have planned and executed a multi-disciplinary attack against the heart of evil in the modern world. Modern evil is Islamofascism. Iraq is only the latest and most visible battlefield in the broader attack. The selection of Iraq as the next target following rapid success in Afghanistan was based in part on Saddam's deprivations, but tactical and strategic factors played a larger role.

Tactical in the sense that it is better to fight our enemy in the enemies land allied (to the extent possible) with his neighbors and fellow countrymen. This draws the enemy to the battle and prevents him from coming to the U.S. Many other positive factors accrue from this tactical battle plan that must be obvious to a serious observer.

p>Strategic in the sense that the presence of a large, mobile, aggressive, and uniquely flexible American military in the heart of the Islamofacist breeding grounds sends an important message to our current and future enemies. American presence in this area allows better intelligence, closer scrutiny of enemy operations, and important surveillance opportunities of rogue nations. On the whole, the effort has been a tremendous success. The ramifications of American and coalition actions are only too obvious: Libya's decision to give up WMDs, Syria's decision to leave Lebanon, popular uprisings for democracy in Lebanon, Egypt's decision to allow somewhat free and contested elections, Saudi Arabia allowing some free elections. Even hard-core Bush haters grudgingly admit the President's plan is working. br> -- Doug Santo br> Pasadena, California /p>

Mr. Tyrrell makes an uncharacteristic error when he describes as "innovative" the use by Saddam regime loyalists/Zarqawi militia of secondary attacks on emergency services attending the scenes of their bombings. The Provisional IRA used secondary devices throughout the 1980s and 1990s against police and ambulance services attending victims of their murders in Ulster.

Your readers might also be interested to learn of a further IRA innovation, that of the "proxy bomb." In this ingenious method, a family is held hostage in its home, the head of the family is chained to the steering column of a car packed with explosives, and told to drive the car/bomb to the nearest Army or police base, whereupon it is detonated. He is warned that, if he decides not to comply, his family will be murdered. He is tailed by "volunteer" of the Irish Republican "Army" to ensure he does as he is ordered.

p>This method was used against the British Army, thousands of whom are currently fighting alongside your Soldiers in the War on Terror.

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