We’re not dealing with the Islamic terrorists as if this were a religious war, but it most certainly is. We are still thinking as if modern warefare must compartmentalize within the boundaries of nation states. We are still uncomfortable with preemptive warfare, although the upcoming JScope conference in Virginia in January should provide a rich source of new points of view. We’re accepting the Islamic definition that Moslems fear nothing, when it is simply a matter of them fearing something different than we do. We tiptoe around giving any possible offense to Moslems when this is destructive to our own interests. Moslems respect brutal, arbitrary use of power. The more careful we are, the more we embolden them.

We need to change our thinking and take a more aggressive stance in the war on terror. The author who says so, and the publisher who gives him a voice, will receive extreme condemnation. If you are not ready for extremely dangerous controversy, then you are not ready for me.