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WE MUST ENGAGE IN IRAN.(Editorial)

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From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
Date: 20060526
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Byline: David Ignatius

WASHINGTON -- "Only connect." That was the trademark line of E.M. Forster's great novel "Howards End." And it's a useful injunction in thinking about U.S. strategy toward Iran and the wider conflicts between the West and the Muslim world.

We are in the early stages of what Centcom commander Gen. John Abizaid calls "the first war of globalization, between openness and closed societies." One key to winning that war, Abizaid told a small group of reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday, is to expand openness and connection. He called al-Qaida "the ...

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