Mark Steyn looks at how we've handed over the entirety of fighting the war to the military and why this is a losing strategy.
Our enemies understand "why we fight" and where the fight is. They know that in the greater scheme of things the mosques of Jakarta and Amsterdam and Toronto and Dearborn are more important territory than the Sunni Triangle. The U.S. military is the best-equipped and best-trained in the world. But it's not enough, it never has been and it never will be.
Read the whole thing, as the kids say.
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