I didn't see any answers in this article either.
Of course, you can't give the answer and still publish, have a radio show or post to Free Republic.
I hear you! Actually the anwer is in there. Also heard VDH on John Batchelor last night. As always, a clear voice of reason. We have to stop putting up with the Islamists - ok, Islama-whackos - preaching hatred and fascism in our midst and ignore their claim of victim status. We have to be a lot less finicky on the military side too, and just go after those we see as sponsoring terrorism, and eschew the UN-dance steps.
Oh, he has plenty of answers. It's not the first time you read Hanson, is it? If its indeed the first: see his own website http://www.victorhanson.com, his archive at NRO: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson-archive.asp and posts of his articles here on FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=victordavishanson
His approach (in my words, not a direct quote) is: don't get wobbly, destroy the bastards, don't pay attention to the shrieks of the multiculturists appeasers, drain the swamp of the Mideast dysfunction that spills its anguish onto the world.
Yes, sometimes he is less optimistic that we (the West in general, not the people of the FR type) can master the will to win