Weighing in at 364 pages, the Rand Corporation has just released a two-part study, “Beyond Al Qaeda.” Al Qaeda espouses a “global revolutionary creed” with an “ideology that is radical and Islamist at its core, but also borrows from 20th century Western totalitarian traditions.” Its goals, Rand notes, “are to mobilize Muslims for a global jihad against the West; topple ‘apostate’ regimes, particularly in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan; and create an Islamic government spanning the Muslim world based on an ultra-orthodox interpretation of Sunni Islam that would isolate the majority of Sunni Muslims as well as Shi’ite Muslims.” On Iraq, Rand outlines three scenarios: