Anti-wobble medicine.

With Gitmo being compared to the gulags, members of Congress pushing for a U.S. retreat from Iraq, and the American people going a bit wobbly in opinion polls, perhaps it's time for us to remember a few of the things that have been accomplished since the days when the World Trade Center and Pentagon were still smoldering. Decisive action has resulted in the killing of the USS Cole bombers (in Yemen); the capture of the chief 9/11 planner (in Pakistan); the capture or killing of 3,000 other al-Qaeda operatives in a global dragnet; the exposure and disruption of an international weapons market enfolding unsavory figures from Pakistan, Libya, North Korea, Iran, and elsewhere; the preemptive surrender of Libya's WMD arsenal; the establishment of friendly and freely elected governments in Iraq and Afghanistan; and the prevention, to date, of any follow-up terror attacks in the U.S.

Absent this global counteroffensive, Osama bin Laden would be free to plan his war on civilization, instead of struggling to survive. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would be recruiting the next wave of suicide bombers to strike America, rather than rotting away in some undisclosed prison. Saddam would be stirring up America-hatred and biding his time for the next showdown, not ...