Islamic totalitarianism is a serious threat to life and liberty, globally. In some places the battlefront is obvious — you can tell by the gunfire, bomb craters and bodies — elsewhere it is ideological. Nonetheless ideas have consequences, slower than bullets, but often far more destructive.

You will excuse my bluntness I hope, when I say that America is still recovering from the ideological butt-kicking that we took from the communists. Walk into any college or cocktail party…