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The war upon us: reflections five years later.(9/11)

National Review

| September 25, 2006 | Brookhiser, Richard | COPYRIGHT 2006 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

I KNEW, from the first week after 9/11, possibly the first day, that I was seeing the rest of my life. The suddenness of my conviction was due to a big thing (the shock of being in Manhattan, watching the Trade Towers smoke and smelling them after they fell) and a small thing (the fact that I happened to be reading Winston Churchill's Marlborough: His Life and Times, which, whatever its limitations as history or biography, accustoms you to long wars). The circumstances, as they became clearer over the months and years, bore the conviction out. Islamic fascism is a cult watered by frustration and cultivated by political actors, mostly Saudi and Iranian, with access to ...

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