Whimpers

Mark Steyn has a good article about our current battle in Iraq and against terrorism. The way that we can lose the War on Terror, and lose the peace in Iraq, is if we defeat ourselves.

It's often said that the terrorists are only a "small minority" of Muslims. True. But, when it's well connected with everyone from the House of Saud to Pakistan's nuke maestro A Q Khan, a small minority can do a lot of damage. Likewise, the whimperers are only a minority of the American people, but they're even more plugged in – in the media, in politics, in the academy. The only relevant Vietnamese comparison is this: then as now, for America it's a choice between victory or self-defeat.