We are at war. It is against an enemy that will never negotiate a peace. The question is whether our generation will have the endurance to fight it out. True, these are the sort of things being said by George W. Bush and John Howard. Not surprisingly, many people take the attitude that if Bush and Howard are for it, they are against it. Both have shamelessly exploited security concerns for partisan political purposes. Bush did it in the 2002 congressional elections when he unfairly painted the Democrats as weak on the war against terror. Howard tirelessly tries to back...