PHILOSOPHICAL DIVISIONS IN THE WAR ON TERROR: Donald Sensing offers a must-read post on the big picture:

Yet asking the question, “What causes Islamist terrorism?” does not make one a de facto leftist by any means. In fact, that was exactly the question that the Bush administration started asking on Sept. 12, 2001. And its framing and answering points out the sharp divide between those who claim the Iraq campaign was a diversion from the War on Terror and those who claim – as I do – that the Iraq war was absolutely essential to succeeding in the WOT.

Read the whole thing.