On the war in Iraq

Via Michelle Malkin, a great and thoughtful post from The Anchoress[excerpts]:

This is an enemy that does not wear a uniform, it hides in the crowd, it fights with no code and concurs with no convention. It doesn’t mind hiding behind women and children or storing arms in churches. If this enemy takes a prisoner it slaughters him on camera, and with great glee.[...]This is an enemy that says, “you love Pepsi, we love death. And we are happy to die as long as we are killing you, too.”[...]…they’re fighting and using terrorism as a means of movement, to advance an idea the bottom line of which is “Die. Or, you know, convert. But mostly die.”[...]If Bush fails in going “all in” and we pull out, okay…we’ve brought our sons and daughters home and basically rendered meaningless our 3000 honorable military deaths. Iraq will immediately fall and the 21century killing fields will commence.

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The whole thing.