When the history of the George W. Bush administration is written, one of the most important questions to be addressed will surely be: Why did a President who repeatedly talked about the ideology animating our enemies in this "War on Terror" do so little to wage an effective "War of Ideas" against it?

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Shorn of such spicy intrigues, in fact, there would be little new in Pakistan's latest contribution to the war on terror.

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And then Obama kind of looks a little bit more, you know, moderate perhaps, in his decision to push back on the global war on terror as a result.

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