Reporters are calling in from “Paradise Square” in the center of Baghdad, by the main mosque we’re used to seeing now. Tanks are rolling in with ease. One soldier holds up and American flag (though not technically raising). This is a jihadist’s nightmare (even if the Baathist regime was secular).
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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