Six years ago America was attacked. It was not the first attack. It has not been the last attack carried out by al Qaida.
Some people just wish that it would all go away. It won't go away on its own.
We have to understand the threat, not our projections, prejudices, or preconceptions.
The war has split open a major, pre-existing fault in not just America, but Western Civilization. The war did not cause the fault, and the end of the war will not eliminate the fault. But with the fault wide open, the full strength of civilization cannot be brought to bear on our enemy.
We are fighting both persons and ideology, but once a person gives up that ideology there is no need to fight them; as long as they hold on to that ideology, however, they must be opposed.
