Victor Davis Hanson’s latest at NRO is typically perceptive and summed up by his conclusion:

Finally, this is not just a struggle to defeat the Islamic fundamentalists, but to establish the principle that the United States in a moment of its greatest success, material wealth, and power can still make terrible sacrifices that throughout the ages have always been the cost for the freedom and security of its citizens and friends abroad. What Osama bin Laden, and those who actively support him, have started, we in the United States most surely will finish.

Read the entire article. Dr. Hanson is the epitome of a clear thinker.