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| | Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online |
 | | The trick is for Americans, who sacrifice lives and treasure, and are singularly responsible for the salvation of the Iraqi people, to ignore Arab ingratitude, callousness, and mean-spiritedness and allow them instead the sense of accomplishment that they saved, and are restoring, their own country. |
 | | At the risk of sounding monotonous, we cannot win in Iraq until Iraqis, not Americans, are on television confidently summing up the reconstruction that we in fact are mostly responsible for. |
 | | All the tiring shoe-shaking, fists in the air, banners, fatwas, and demonstrating we have seen in Iraq not to mention the dead-end sniping and killing from a dying cabal of criminals are not explicable just through political or economic gripes, but revolve mostly around wounded pride and a sense of disgrace. |
| www.nationalreview.com /hanson/hanson200401160656.asp (1876 words) |
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