If we had known then...

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Author(s)	Jeff Jacoby
Source	The Boston Globe
Date	October 22, 2006
URL	hhttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-goldberg19oct19,0,5993806.column
Quote	"Like earlier Americans, we have to choose between resolve and retreat, with no guarantees about how it will end. All we can be sure of is that the stakes once again are liberty and decency vs. tyranny and terror -- that we are fighting an enemy that feeds on weakness and expects us to lose heart -- and that Americans for generations to come will remember whether we flinched."

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This item argues against the position Coalition troops should pull out on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.

This item refers to the previous opinion item Iraq Was a Worthy Mistake.