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Juan Cole's site is usually one of the most informative places on the web for Middle Eastern analysis of the news. Today there is an extraordinary treatment of who the real enemy is in the muslim world and an explanation of John Kerry's stance on the war in a guest editorial by Professor Joseph White,
Director of the Center for Policy Studies at Case Western Reserve University
Well worth the read. Professor White answers the question:
Why invading Iraq was the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, but, once the U.S. is there, trying to win may be the best among bad choices.