Naming the Enemy

Via Insty, now comes the Times of London reporting on the clearing of Al-Qaeda from Mosul Iraq.

But Glenn missed the money quote:

Al-Qaeda was also bleeding support as allied Iraqi insurgents accepted an amnesty. It did not apply to Al-Qaeda. “If you are fighting to install sharia [Islamic law] on this country, you are going to have to be killed,” said Colonel David Brown, an American adviser to 2nd Division.

There you have it. That's what the Americans and Iraqis are fighting and dying for--freedom from the imposition of religion-based law.