OPERATION FREEDOM The fi ght for Iraq was costly. Could Iran wind up reaping the benefi ts?


plete withdrawal


With the ominous path to com- from Iraq seem-


ingly set, the question still in play is, Will we allow a similar unraveling to proceed in Afghanistan? In my view, further disengagement there should be conditions-based. And, no less importantly, we need a revised con- cept for what we are doing, in favor of a strategy that unambiguously strives decisively to defeat the Taliban and their enablers, not to negotiate with them over what amount to the terms of our surrender.


Meanwhile, elsewhere in the Middle East, enemies of the United States are on the march. The prin- cipal benefi ciary of the so-called “Arab Spring” is likely to be the Muslim Brotherhood. As is true in most revolutionary situations, the most disciplined, organized, and ruthless elements usually prevail. In Egypt, that distinction would go to the Brotherhood.


Unfortunately, this Salafi st move- ment’s ascendancy is in the offi ng far beyond its original home nation of Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood may become a real force to reckon with in Syria, Yemen, Jordan, and throughout the Palestinian areas. In due course, the Brotherhood may even succeed in destabilizing the


9/11 VOICES “


We haven’t been attacked in 10 years. I congratulate the military, the CIA, and the FBI for doing their jobs — and both the Bush and Obama administrations for taking the handcuff s off those people and letting them do their work . . . We have to unleash the people who do covert operations, and who know how to protect the United States in ways we probably don’t understand.


do — Lee Greenwood | Country Recording Artist of “God Bless the USA” ” SEPTEMBER 2011 / NEWSMAX / 9|11: A DECADE LATER 69


nation whose government, royal family, and business elites have done as much as any to promote the Brotherhood’s operations elsewhere around the world: Saudi Arabia. We as a government have vir- tually missed altogether yet-another theater in which this life-and-death struggle is being fought. That is the


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