According to our government, when Muslims act on these and other exhortions to independent violence (See, Osama’s 1998 fatwa, inter alia) it’s not terrorism. And even though all jihadis say their goal is to implement sharia law, we’ve written sharia into the Afghani and Iraqi constitutions. It’s even making inroads here as ‘alternative dispute resolution’ — as if some poor Afghani immigrant is going to think that when she finds hereself in front of a sheik or mufti in a western nation.

We’re ‘solving’ the terror problem while losing the war, and it’s not close.