Hillel Halkin of the New York Sun congratulates President Bush for finally identifyting Islamofascism as our enemy. But he goes on to wish that the President would be a little bit less politically correct: The president is of course right to insist now, too, that the enemy is not Islam itself. He is perfectly justified to have stated in his October 6 speech that a religion like Islam that "demands individual moral accountability, and encourages the encounter of the individual with God, is fully compatible with the rights and responsibilities of [democratic] self—government." The whole American endeavor in Iraq would make no sense if one didn't believe this. And yet while an American president can go only so far in what he says, Mr. Bush might have spared himself some unnecessary mealymouthedness had he not hastened to add that, even though "whole societies" in the Middle East "remain stagnant while the world moves ahead," these "are not the failures of a culture or a religion"...(Read Full Post)