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"What is so amazing to me about the French campaign — 'Operation America Must Fail' — is that France seems to have given no thought as to how this would affect France. Let me spell it out in simple English: if America is defeated in Iraq by a coalition of Saddamists and Islamists, radical Muslim groups — from Baghdad to the Muslim slums of Paris — will all be energized, and the forces of modernism and tolerance within these Muslim communities will be on the run. To think that France, with its large Muslim minority, where radicals are already gaining strength, would not see its own social fabric affected by this is fanciful."

--Thomas Friedman, Our War With France

Once again, the discussion is being framed as Islam vs. the West, with the US standing in for the West. To hear Friedman tell it, we are making the last stand against the tide of Saracen domination.