9/11 Was The Beginning Of A Religious War That We LostWe thought religion had no real influence on peoples and cultures, so we failed to recognize the religious nature of the conflict.Twenty-five years ago this week I listened to the late historian Stephen Ambrose deliver the opening remarks for a conference about World War Two at Hillsdale College. He had good news for us. The 21st century, Ambrose declared, would be an era of peace and progress. He said the major conflicts of the 20th century, the two world wars and the Cold War that followed, were fundamentally disputes within...