April 15, 2004 OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Will the Opposition Lead? By PAUL BERMAN The war in Iraq may end up going well or catastrophically, but either way, this war has always been central to the broader war on terror. That is because terror has never been a matter of a few hundred crazies who could be rounded up by the police and special forces. Terror grows out of something larger — an enormous wave of political extremism. The wave began to swell some 25 years ago and by now has swept across a big swath of the Muslim world. The wave...