From ‘The Enemy at Home’

So far Bush has been fighting his war against Islamic radicalism mainly on the military front. Such a campaign is indispensable, but it can never succeed, no matter how many insurgents it kills, if the supply of radical Muslims is continually replenished from the ranks of the traditional Muslims. The traditional Muslims are the only people who are capable of stopping radical Islam. Thus victory in the war on terror depends on America’s ability to create divisions between traditional Muslims and radical Muslims. America can decisively win this war by allying with traditional Muslims, and working with them to defeat the Islamic radicals.

The best way for the right to make such an alliance is to convey to Muslims that we share common ground with them on traditional values. Conservatives can communicate this message by challenging and attacking the left and the Europeans on the international stage. Instead of trying to unify America and the West, the right should highlight the division between red America and blue America, and also between traditional America and decadent Europe. By attacking the depravity of the left and the Europeans, conservatives can win friends among Muslims and other traditional people around the world.

On the domestic front, the right must stop its petty infighting and engage in a concerted political campaign to expose the left as the enemy at home. In order to achieve its own objectives, the left is serving as bin Laden’s unpaid public-relations team in America, and conservatives should not be afraid to say this. Conservatives must show the de facto alliance between the Islamic radicals and the American radicals, and demand that mainstream liberals and Democrats expel this faction from their camp. In short, the right should force liberals to banish the left from the precincts of political respectability.

http://chronicle.com Section: The Chronicle Review Volume 53, Issue 17, Page B8