[Lurking in Kansas]

...the Islamists have made a bet — that we’re too soft and decadent to see this through to the finish. This November, one way or another, they’ll get their answer.

Yup, that's what this election is all about.

[Alberta's Child]

. . . the Islamists have made a bet — that we’re too soft and decadent to see this through to the finish. This November, one way or another, they’ll get their answer.

Steyn is incorrect about this. We got the answer in the summer of 2003, and it wasn't what we wanted to hear.

I contend that the "war on terror" officially ended last summer, when the same Congress that couldn't figure out how to fund the war effort had no problem mustering near-unanimous support for a bill that would protect Americans from -- get this -- telemarketers.