The wars against us have not ended – responsibly or otherwise.
They are fought by people who need the United States as an
organizing principle, and who will not be dissuaded by our
absence our reluctance to cooperate with Israel, or the
President’s flattery. Separately, the Shiite and the Sunni
elements despise one another; together, they despise us more.
The unwillingness of the Obama administration to label the
September occupation of American diplomatic facilities in Cairo
and Benghazi, and the murder of an American diplomat “acts of
war” make this an opportune moment to consider two lessons
emanating from more than a decade of warfare in the Arab and
Moslem world. - The United States has ceased to use military
force as an instrument with which to enforce its will. Our
military has become an element of American diplomacy designed to
change minds and behavior. The civilian population – the sea in
which non-conventional armies swim, to paraphrase Mao – has
become the object of intense and expensive American