Or will we accept that the Islamic world's failures are just part of the religion and nothing is to be done?
Charles Krauthammer writes of our recent failure of will:
As the Bush Doctrine has come under attack, there are those in America who have welcomed its apparent setbacks and defeats as a vindication of their criticism of the policy. But the problem is that that kind of vindication leaves America in a position where there are no good alternatives. The reason that there is general despair now is because if it proves to be true that the Bush Doctrine has proclaimed an idea of democratizing the Arab/Islamic world that is unattainable and undoable, then there are no remaining answers to how to counter ultimately the threat of Islamic radicalism.
It is not true that if we don't democratize the Arab/Islamic world that their is no remaining answer to how to counter the threat of Islamic radicalism. If opponents of the President's methods win and compel us to pull back to our shores; and our enemies continue to attack and kill us anyway, we don't have to simply surrender at that point.
One method will always be within our power.
