Whatever the Bush administration got wrong, it got one big thing right: that, if you persevered, Iraq had the potential to function as a free society in a part of the world where no such thing has ever existed. That was a long shot, and much sneered at. But Washington judged correctly: Given the radicalization of the Arab world, and the Arabification of the Islamic world, and the Islamification of much of the rest of the world, in the end you have to fix the problem at the source.
Sometimes war is worth it. And, if you don't think so, look at the opening scenes of that UNICEF video -- Smurfs singing, dancing, gamboling merrily -- and try to imagine living in a Smurf enclave in a province that wants to introduce Sharia.
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