Against whom?
Those on the “progressive” left have just begun mentally chewing on what for them is a gargantuan idea, that the military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq are but battles in a much more monumental war. Those who understand the danger facing our country have come to the realization that there are two major fronts in our struggle for survival; the physical front (locations of armed conflict) and the ideological front (where the battles for the mind of a society take place).
These are major battles in a larger war. Every time a terrorist is killed or a terrorist cell ripped apart, a minor skirmish is won. Yet the minor skirmish is a major battle to those specific combatants.
The writer nails this one. I am amazed the "civil liberatarians" have no care whatsoever for how their efforts will hurt the American people as a whole.
What makes you think they don't want the Islamists to win. What has the ACLU done in my lifetime (55 years) to suggest that they want the United States to exist as a going concern or exist at all, for that matter?
The War against the Barbary Pirates is an excellent example that should have been followed. Warfare need not be against a specific nation or state.
The ACLU, a lot of the Democrats, and the Islamic nut cases all have the same goal - destroy this country.
Against Islam.