Take That, Conventional Wisdom

While anti-terrorist operations have been successful here and there in a patchy way, and the fate of Afghanistan remains in doubt, the far more important ideological war has ended with a spectacular global victory for President Bush.

So saith Edward Luttwak in Prospect, a British monthly.

I don't know if Luttwak is right, but he tries here to get outside of the daily back-and-forth and take a longer view of things, and that should be commended. Go read it.