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Cutting a little to the chase, and noting that one is certainly free to disagree with his analysis, Record claims to have identified five GWOT objectives:
(1) destroy the perpetrators of 9/11--i.e., al-Qaeda;
(2) destroy or defeat other terrorist organizations of global reach, including the nexus of their regional and national analogs;
(3) delegitimize and ultimately eradicate the phenomenon of terrorism;
(4) transform Iraq into a prosperous, stable democracy; and,
(5) transform the Middle East into a region of participatory self-government
and economic opportunity.
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