[hinckley buzzard]

As Bush administration officials know but sometimes seem to forget, today’s struggle might well hinge on ideas, not armies.

This is the kind of sophomoric conceit one would expect of a college kid. The fact is, moslems don't have ideas, so there is nothing there to influence. Radical moslems just need killing, in large numbers.

If there is any "war of ideas" at all, it is domestic, as the sleepy, distracted burghers of the States and Europe slowly come to the awareness that their comfortable, effortless civilization is under brutal assault, and by no means invincible.

[neverdem]

The fact is, moslems don't have ideas, so there is nothing there to influence.

I beg to differ. They have Islam, jihad, convert, dhimmitude or die.