<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/effeebca-cb9c-49fc-9005-979f86f546de/57B8E6EA-C552-415F-A4CA-AE8B9906657D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newser.com/story/68835/win-in-afghanistan-or-were-doomed.html" href="http://www.newser.com/story/68835/win-in-afghanistan-or-were-doomed.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newser.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newser.com/story/68835/win-in-afghanistan-or-were-doomed.html">Three big-swinging columnists from the left, right and center—Tom Friedman and Nicholas Kristof of the <EM>Times</EM>, plus George Will of the <EM>Post</EM>—have joined the chorus of naysayers on the war in Afghanistan. But if we lose this "relatively easy fight," writes <EM>Wall Street Journal</EM> columnist Bret Stephens, the United States is frankly doomed, a degraded empire following the Romans into history. Withdrawal would give jihadists a major victory, he says, and open the door to attacks that would dwarf 9/11. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newser.com/story/68835/win-in-afghanistan-or-were-doomed.html"><P> For Stephens, "Afghanistan matters not because that's where 9/11 was conceived. It matters because that's where it was <EM>imagined</EM><EM>.</EM>" Not only would withdrawal precipitate an even bloodier civil war, sow chaos in Pakistan, and fortify al-Qaeda in Iraq. Worse, it would give Islamists a victory greater than the Soviet defeat there—"a monumental political and ideological victory from which it could recruit a new field of avid jihadists." </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/57B8E6EA-C552-415F-A4CA-AE8B9906657D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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