Endgame Viable

President Bush has been pouring on the rhetoric lately and claiming that Iraq is The Front in the global war on terror, or something to that effect. I think that’s a bit misleading. I agree that it’s one of the fronts in “the war,” but I think there are quite a few other fronts, too. There’s still one or two in Afghanistan, for example, and there’s a new one opening in Somalia that we haven’t even addressed yet. There are various organizations of violent Sharia enthusiasts in most countries around the world, actually, and wherever there’s a Muslim imam trying to impose strict authoritarian Sharia on others, I think there’s also a front in the war on terror.