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By Jim Hoagland | Sunday, April 12, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…The realists are right about this: The United States and its NATO partners cannot ‘win’ the war inside Islam. Perhaps all they can accomplish is to buy time for mainstream Islamic forces in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere to organize an effective response to the existential threat in their midst. That will be a costly, and essentially thankless, task for the United States. But it may yet be the least disastrous course to follow….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/10/AR2009041002607_pf.html