This kind of goes with I am talking about.

The author is talking about what our enemy's purpose is with this current fighting. He believes it is to stop the spread of democracy in the Middle East. If this is true, this battle in Fallujah could be more important than fighting for a city. It could be the pivot between a free Middle East and one of no change.

From the article;

The enemy now fights in Iraq with fierce determination. But for what? To end American occupation? That’ll happen in 90 days or so, with Iraqis assuming sovereignty. To restore Saddam? The coward -- who sent millions of young Iraqis to die in battle, and himself meekly surrendered with a rifle in his lap –-- would be torn to sheds were he not incarcerated, and protected, by American troops. To establish a mullah-cracy, as in Iran? Just go next door and ask Iranians how they like life under their corrupt, incompetent and vicious mullahs.

No, the enemy’s purpose is to end any U.S. attempt to spread decency and, yes, democracy in the Arab world. The stakes are high in Iraq. If it goes right there, peaceful transformations can go right in Egypt, Jordan, the Gulf states -- even Saudi Arabia and Iran.