This is the single best opinion piece I’ve ever read on how to go about winning against the Iraqi insurgents. It also contains lessons on why we’ll lose if we let ourselves.

Unfortunately, as expressed in the article, the weakest link in western counterinsurgency ability has always been the leftists controlling the dialogue at home, fabricating one artificial defeat after another. General Petraeus may be doing very well in Iraq, and ultimately he may succeed in breaking the insurgency’s hold on the Iraqi population. But it won’t matter if the left continues to dispirit us here at home. We’ll lose despite victory on the ground. Just like the French in Algeria and ourselves in Vietnam.

But there is hope. We’re making progress in negating the one piece of the equation where militant ideological extremists and thier leftists allies can manage to tip things against us. I’m talking about the media. Broadcast TV and print are practically lost causes, impenetrable fortresses of defeatist liberalism. But in radio and the internet we can rob them of thier advantage. If you’re here reading this, realize that you are standing in the middle of the pivotal battlefield for the survival of our way of life. A virtual battlefield for the hearts and minds of America. To make a dramatic overstatement, Western Civilization lives or dies here on the internet with the click of a mouse.

The weapons which will achieve victory on this battlefield: Common sense, good judgment, and skepticism. Question everything. Critical thought is the left’s Achilles’ Heel. And most of all, make your voice heard. In that regard, making our voices heard, we’ve got a lot of ground to make up. The time our ideological adversaries save by dispensing with critical thought and avoiding the rigors of capitalism they devote to political expression of every variety imaginable. I contend that your typical liberal activist is so devoid of thought, that were his brain removed the mouth might continue speaking for hours before exhausting itself. We have to drown these people out.

Reshaping the debate in our favor is the only way to succeed against the challenges we will face this century.

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