Frank said:

"We had a will to win."

We have a will to win this war as well. However in World War II (which was before my time) we also had fairly strict censureship of the press. Efforts by a newspaper editor to undermine the war effort during WW-II would have attracted the attention of the FBI. The US population was also immersed in extreme anti-Japanese and anti-Nazi propaganda. One of the consequences of the anti-Japanese propaganda was the utterly disgraceful deportation of innocent Japanese-American citizens to relocation camps out in the desert.

I'm not proposing the reintroduction of censureship like they had during World War II. However we do have a problem with much of the MSM along with the useful idiots acting as cheerleaders for the Islamic Fascists.

Wretchard over at Belmont Club once said something to the effect that before we can get rid of the terrorists, we must first get rid of the liberals. I don't agree with Wretchard about this (I suspect he was only making a rhetorical point anyway). Politics is similar to a chemical process, i.e. for every forward chemical reaction there is a backwards reaction. A chemical process procedes forward because the forward reaction rate is larger than the bacward reaction rate. Liberalism is a reaction to political realism. Garden variety Fascism is a consequence of (reaction to) "getting rid of the liberals". The price paid for political realism in a democracy is enduring liberal nonsense and their betrayal on national interests. The $64,000 question: Will the liberals through the MSM succeed in preventing victory against the Islamic Fascists. If the answer is "yes", then the War on Terrorism will eventually be fought on the streets on New York and Los Angeles rather than in Mosul and Fallujah. The political reaction to that will be the failure of our democracy and the beginning of limited nuclear war. Let us hope, that political realism continues to be stronger than liberalism.

Gary