We have been preached to that islam is a "religion of peace" while the evidence right in front of us tells us it ain't so. How are Americans supposed to understand the threat and even name the enemy when our leadership pumps out this kind of nonsense? We have an ongoing invasion coming from our southern border and we're told to adapt to it somehow.
We've already lost.
We have certainly been poorly served by many of our so-called leaders. However, I would rather that we, as a nation, have yet to begin the fight.
Our President is strong and has much resolved, but his family and he are too close to the Saudi royal family to understand the threat of Islam.
Also the fact that there are many fine muslims in the U.S., such as Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad (amb. to Iraq), further complicates the President's use of language in defining the enemy.
He was correct IMO in calling the enemy islamofascism but he is too afraid of the public and of his friends to use it with great conviction.
We will to wait until 2008 for a leader in this war who will clearly define the enemy.