On terror: Worth Noting

This editorial gets it. Key quotes:

People ... can't possibly believe that jihadist terror is the product of 4 1/2 years of war waged by the United States in Afghanistan and then Iraq - no matter how counterproductive or stupid they consider those conflicts to have been.

Otherwise, how could they account for 9/11 itself, or for the host of attacks on U.S. facilities here and abroad stretching back two decades earlier? How would they explain Osama bin Laden's declaration of war against the infidel West in the 1990s? Otherwise, how could they account for 9/11 itself, or for the host of attacks on U.S. facilities here and abroad stretching back two decades earlier? How would they explain Osama bin Laden's declaration of war against the infidel West in the 1990s?
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Those fascists do not merely desire all of the West Bank. They seek all of Israel. They do not desire accommodation with the West. They seek an end to its supremacy. And in those European countries where they exist in large numbers, their long-term goal is to transform those societies into Islamic states.

On the specifics of how the war is being fought, and what we should do to win it, this Wall Street Journal editorial merits attention. It points out that while Democrats have many valid criticisms of the military campaign in Iraq, they are basically unserious about any plan to otherwise wage war on and defeat Islamic terrorists; which the message of my post yesterday.