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A Success of the War in Iraq

March 23rd, 2006 | 2 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

As always in war, this success is mixed: the battleground has shifted from targets in the West to the soil of Iraq. Of course we would rather the war went away all together and that radical Islam would perish, but as it is the war is currently not waged by terrorists in America. Terrorists vs. civilians is not a matchup that we like. Now, however, the battle is fought between our professional soldiers - who happen to be the most elite combatants in the history of the world - and the insurgents in Iraq, the odds of which are much more in our favor.

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.