Another 9/11 Republican

The war on terrorism is nothing more than the great struggle of our time, and, like the earlier ones against fascism and totalitarianism, we ignore it at our peril. Whether or not one accepts that we are engaged in a war, our enemies have declared it so. It took the horrors of 9/11 to awaken me to this reality, but for others, such lessons remain unlearned. For me, it was self-evident that in Islamic terrorism, America had found a nihilistic threat that sought to wipe out not only Western civilization but also civilization itself.

It is funny how some of these former liberals are better able than long-time conservatives to see that this is a 'great struggle' against an implacable enemy (radical Islam), not an isolated war against a means (terrorism).