Hard though it is to judge, the United States appears to be winning the war against terrorism. The United States is certainly in a stronger position than it was on Sept. 10, 2001. The terrorists have lost their main base. From protected predators, they are now the hunted. The United States has ousted Saddam Hussein's criminal regime, which while uninvolved in 9/11 was still a serial terrorism sponsor, and Libya is renouncing terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The main setbacks have been in Iraq - the self-inflicted wound of torture at Abu Ghraib and the faltering response to the...