This is an e-mail that captures why it’s so important that we get help in this fight:

I think Mr. Derbyshire doesn’t understand the implications of his own preferred strategy. I am quite in agreement that we need to destroy the jihadi network wherever it exists. But, if we do it all ourselves, any victory we achieve will be short-lived. If we do not wish to occupy vast swaths of the Muslim world, we need those Iraqi “peasants” (his words) to take up the fight as well so that future generations of Americans are not sent off to fight every decade or so some resurgent group of Islamofascists.
What we are witnessing, in Iraq and elsewhere, is not Huntington’s clash of civilizations–yet. We are witnessing a civil war within Islam, and, like it or not, we’ve been in the middle of it for decades. . . . Getting Iraqis, Afghanis, Lebanese, and other Muslim “peasants” to stand up and fight the jihadists along side us–not for us–is a necessary precondition for a lasting victory over radical Islam….