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By Robert Satloff | Sunday, November 11, 2007 | The Washington Post

“…Today, most Americans believe that the United States is fighting three wars: in Iraq, in Afghanistan and against violent Islamist extremists around the world (i.e., “the war on terror”). But as the Sept. 11 commission pointed out, we are, more accurately, engaged in what can be considered a fourth war, against the spread of the ideology of radical Islamism. In this war, the battlefields are the many cities, towns and villages where extremists seek to impose their absolutist view of sharia-based rule. The stakes in this contest are no less consequential for U.S. interests than those in the other three wars — perhaps greater….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/09/AR2007110901897_pf.html