The strategic importance of Iraq

Paul Wolfowitz on the Hugh Hewitt show:

[W]e also need to be about the business of persuading people, especially in the Muslim world where most of these terrorists are recruited from, that that's not the right alternative, that there's a better future for them, that there's a bright future here on earth. It is kind of sickening to read things like Zarqawi's letter or other publications by the terrorists where they express enormous contempt for people who love life and fear death. We have plenty of brave young men and women who are facing the prospect of death in Iraq but it is because they love life, not because they think there is some paradise afterwards that they want to rush their way to.

That is precisely what we're doing in Iraq, building hope for the rising generations of the Arab World. Europe doesn't want that. Their economic growth depends on immigration from Muslim countries of young people looking for a future. If they had one at home, who would Europe have in its labor force.