It's A War On War
It's already been mentioned in several places, but if you haven't read Norman Podhoretz's The War Against World War IV (which appears in Commentary) I strongly encourage you to do so. It's a long piece and it's probably easier to print it out (all thirty-two pages) rather than reading it online. Either way, it's a must read.
World War IV is already marked by its own version of all these features ("Why are we in Iraq?"; "Who, exactly, is the enemy?"; "Is there really a terrorist threat?"). But in the 24-hour-a-day TV coverage that now exists, the forces promoting defeatism have a far more potent weapon for magnifying everything that goes wrong, or only appears to have gone wrong. We who support World War IV can complain all we like about these conditions, but they are the ones under which it will have to be fought if it is to be fought at all. The bottom line is that we are up against even more defeatism in this war than there was in World War III.
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