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Talk to the enemy: a middle ground between victory and defeat: a negotiated settlement.(IRAQ)
American Prospect, The, February, 2006 by Dreyfuss, Robert
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THROUGHOUT DECEMBER, IN A political offensive designed to recapture the initiative over the failing war in Iraq, President Bush portrayed the battle there in stark terms. Iraq, he said, is the central front in a global struggle against "Islamofascism," against an enemy whose intent is to create a radical, worldwide caliphate comparable to the Nazi enemy the United States fought in World War II or the communist foe that competed with America in (the Cold) World War III.
In so doing, the president aligned himself with the hardest of America's hard-liners, such as former CIA ...
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