  urlLink USS Clueless - Decompressing Iraq : "And that means we're beginning to win the war. This was the real reason for conquering Iraq.
This is our best strategic weapon against the extremists who attacked us. Their power is in their ideas, their beliefs, and basic to them is a dedication to uniformity and central control, of submission of the masses to the will of the few. We counter that with our idea about individual liberty, and our idea is better. I believe that it's better ethically and esthetically. Societies based on our idea are more productive in nearly every way. And our idea is more competitive memetically. Our idea is more seductive, more attractive. Against it they have little defense. " That is just one excerpt of a well written, most excellent piece by Mr. den Beste.
Kudos and I'd hope my 2 regular readers would take a peek at the entire article. ;) 
