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"Middle East scholar" Daniel Pipes interviewed by Bill Steigerwald for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review in a story 01.Apr.06 headlined

Pipes calls war a success

That would be the Iraq war.
Which is, like Viet Nam, not technically a war at all.
Astute readers with long memories will recall a repeated assertion made here, and in other venues - that the purpose of the invasion was, from the beginning, to destroy Iraq itself, as an economic and political entity, Saddam or no Saddam.

Pipes is asked:

Q: You're not one of those neocons who allegedly talked President Bush into going to war in the Middle East?

and his answer, in total:

A: I have been called a neoconservative. I don't exactly know how a neoconservative differs from a conservative.

Pipes says:

The real issue is the war that radical Islam, a global phenomenon, has declared on us and that has already been underway for many years, and we're still at the beginning of it. That's the really major issue.

Pipes says:

To give an imperfect analogy: Germany went through a hideous period between 1933 and 1945. The condition of the Muslim world is not that bad but it's comparable. It's going through a particularly bad time. ... Our goal is to help the Muslim world move beyond this war through educational programs and other means.

Pipes never mentioned Israel once during the entire interview as printed. He's not asked to supply a reason for this declaration of war on "us" either.
Though the most radical Muslims, including bin Laden, have said repeatedly and clearly that the Israeli treatment of Palestinians is primary in their cause, and the US support of Israel is primary in their hatred of America - or was until the war Pipes calls a success, with its hundreds of thousands of innocent dead.