Can we win the ideological war? Asked during World War II why the British continued to fight so ferociously, Churchill is said to have snorted, "if we stop, you'll find out.".

The question arises in the war on terror: we know who the main enemy is, al-Qaeda, the men and movement responsible for 9/11, but what are they fighting for? What is their war all about? A year ago, in Salt Lake City, President Bush, addressing the American Legion, sought to define the war from his Publication: The American Conservative