Whoever would have thought....

....I agree with David Brooks!

"We're not in the middle of a war on terror, they note. We're not facing an axis of evil. Instead, we are in the midst of an ideological conflict."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/24/opinion/24brooks.html?th

We are not at war with people, we are at 'war' with ideas.  You cannot stop ideas with military, you need to fight them with ideas & and action backing your ideals.

This was the major failure of the Iraq war.  With pre-emption and the mistreatment of Iraqis, we showed that our ideals and actions are not the same, therefore our ideas are bankrupt.

We need to change our actions to match the ideals of America.  The promise of freedom and liberty, backed by equal action, can defeat Islamic radicalism better than guns and bombs.