Dr, Sanity's blog today has a piece about the conflict with Islam. She sees the situation in much the same way that I do, as I have posted in the past. Namely, that Bush's effort to establish democracy in a Muslim country, while not likely to succeed, was the most humane approach we could take. If the Bush plan fails then millions of people, most of them Muslims, are going to die. That is because the West will eventually respond to provacations by the Jihadists. That response will come only after the threat is much greater, and the response will be massive. An analogy would be to Hitler's Germany, which the West tried to appease, and finally had to confront resulting in the loss of millions of lives. I think that history will judge todays Democratic Party harshly for trying to undermine Bush's efforts to bring democracy to the Middle East, and thus avoid a world war.