Do Americans Want Victory?

 Posted by on 10 September 2008 at 9:30 am  Foreign Policy
Sep 102008
 

In 1941, America was attacked by followers of a vicious totalitarian ideology. But in less than four years, we went from this:

To this:

This was possible because Americans of 1941 were willing to clearly identify the enemy, stand up to it, and defeat it. Their goal was victory and they achieved it.

In 2001, America was attacked by followers of a vicious totalitarian ideology:

It is now 7 years later. Will we let the story end here?

Or will we summon the intellectual and moral courage to clearly identify the enemy, stand up to it, and defeat it?

In other words, do Americans of today want victory?

The choice is ours…

   
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