Let us hope the war in Iraq is quick, the death toll is low, and that all dire predictions prove unfounded; let’s also hope that we haven’t destroyed our own country ideologically in order to save it.
More than the insanity or weaponry of Saddam Hussein, we should fear the deepening of a rift between the Muslim world and the West. The haste with which we are building toward war in Iraq is sending the wrong message to both.
