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The Wall Street Journal editorial board
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The Wall Street Journal
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May 31, 2008
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121218707586633975.html
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"One irony here is that Barack Obama is promising a rapid withdrawal from Iraq on grounds that we can't defeat al Qaeda unless we focus on Afghanistan. He opposed the Iraq surge on similar grounds. Yet it is the surge, and the destruction of al Qaeda in Iraq, that has helped to demoralize al Qaeda around the world. Nothing would more embolden Zawahiri now than a U.S. retreat from Iraq, which al Qaeda would see as the U.S. version of the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan."
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This item argues against the position Coalition troops should pull out on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.
