Many commentators familiar with American history are rightly concerned that the American people might not be willing to continue the war on terror long enough to perform a thorough attitude adjustment on an Arab tribal culture which well pre-dates Islam. They err in feeling that the result might be cessation of the effort and reversion to isolationism. This arises in part because of a short-sighted focus on America’s most recent major war, in Vietnam, but also because these commentators don't understand the bloody obvious (i.e., they assume that the terrorists will stop attacking us just because we stop fighting them),...