It now has truly become the one thing.  It is not just about the war in Iraq; it is about our entire political culture.  I often write about the City Slickers movie scene where the Curly character tells the dudes that it is about "the one thing." 

What happened in Boston yesterday will become part of the general scene if the Jihadists know that they can beat us up in Iraq.  The war will have wide repercussions in the Middle East unless the assorted fanatics are not killed.  I recently had a conversation with an old friend who talked about the war in the last days in Europe in World War II.  "The German Army was first class" he said. And in a sense "they played fair" about war.  "The thousands of young SS ers' were different ... fanatics ... you had to kill them and kill them we did ... by the thousands."  The same thing is true today.

But now that the war has become the chief political issue of the Democrats and the left; their rise to power must be thwarted.  Their defeatist, retreatist, and so-called progressive politics must lose.  In 18 months we have to be able to say proudly, "President Bush was right and you dumb defeatists were wrong, shut up ... you have no right to political power." 

Then they must be defeated in ideas and in the election, or we will have the politics of the left for a possible decade.  That will be very bad.  So there you have it.  It is not just the war in the Middle East and Iran, but the war for the political soul of the country... so once again I say to the leadership about Iraq.... Just Win!