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.
Believe me, I do like your view and would hope for the sake of both my nation and my children that it's correct. What undermines my hope, though, is the fact that we have so many of the enemy already here amongst us - an unarmed, unresisted invasion force has walked into our country and is more than prepared to take up arms to kill us on our own streets. This war, when it finally happens, will bloody our non-combatant citizens right here. Ain't gonna be pretty.
>>> We will to wait until 2008 for a leader in this war who will clearly define the enemy.
Newt is the one to do it. ... imo.