The most striking thing about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s letter to President Bush – his “come to Mohammed” letter if you will – is how common the whole thing feels. In reading the Ahmadinejad letter – and I did take the time to read the whole thing – it quickly became apparent that there was very little to distinguish his words from those of any generic liberal activist. The letter – and the reaction to it by the American and global left – once again calls to mind a certain phrase that I have used in the past. There is only one war and there is only one enemy.

The letter brings to mind Osama Bin Laden’s final message before the 2004 Election, which served as a combination endorsement of John Kerry and recitation of the gospel of Michael Moore. It goes further to demonstrate what many of us have warned of for a long time: the synchronization of the domestic and foreign foe. In Iraq, al-Qaeda sets off bombs to hurt America and, in Washington, the al-Qaeda caucus in the Congress does the political equivalent.

Ahmadinejad’s letter is unmistakably a left-wing rant, full of typical liberal garbage about how American soldiers in Iraq are, “subjected to so much psychological pressure that everyday some commit suicide” and going on to sound off about how the CIA’s secret European prisons are not compatible with the , “provisions of any judicial system.” Based upon this, what are we to conclude?

There are two basic options. Either he means it (and Bin Laden meant it in ’04) or he doesn’t mean it. In the first case (and worst case), it means that Iran’s lunatic President and the global left are as one on the issues of the day. In the second, and slightly-less-than-worst, case we are left with the fact that the left, well meaning though it might be, has become nothing less than an active tool of the foreign policy of our enemies and that this letter is a deliberate effort to play to useful idiots among the world’s people.

There is only one war: the global and universal war against those forces that are determined to destroy Western civilization. This is an existential war and it must go on until either one side or the other is destroyed. There is no middle ground between Western freedom and Islamic slavery. Either you are, as President Bush once said, with us or you are with our enemies.

And in this war – in this great struggle for the future of the greatest civilization in the history of man – whose side is the left on? Who do they want to win? What do they wish for the final result to be?

I have come to the inescapable conclusion that the left wishes for us to lose this war as much as the Islamists do. Certainly, I do not contend that the left has the same endgame in vision as their Moslem allies do (a universal Caliphate versus the benevolent rule of the transnational progressive supermen), but their short term goal is the same: the breaking of American power, which is the major obstacle to the fulfillment of their dreams.

Let me ask an honest question: have the left, since September 11th, done anything at all which has helped the cause of the West in the Global War on Terrorism? Have the actions and proposals of the left helped to stop even a single terrorist attack? Have the led to the death of even a single Islamist?

I am reminded of the words of a great man who, in the midst of another global conflict where the left found itself on the wrong side, that those who say they do not like our methods have not told us any other methods which we could use which would be effective. Instead, the method of the left has been to undermine, to snipe, and to attack a magnificent President and his noble works for purely political gain.

No one denies that the President has made mistakes. I certainly do not. But he is the man who is out in front, day after day, while the left simply sits in the back seat and attempts to force him to swerve off the road. In this – in their constant efforts to undermine the President and to obstruct the War on Terrorism – the left is serving the same ends as our enemies abroad. Our foreign enemies may mostly pray to the Moon God and our domestic enemies may be largely Godless but, when they pray, they pray for the same thing: the failure of this President and his efforts to defend America.

The clash of civilizations is a clash of visions. The liberal dream of a pansexual drugged-up bathhouse utopia might not share all that much in common with the Mohammedan’s lust for building stone walls to topple over on gays and adulterers, but the one thing they do share in common is this: they will not come to pass until America has been castrated. American power and determination is the common factor which confines the fantasies of our enemies to the realm of the mind.

As Red-Brown alliances of communists and fascists often spring up to destroy liberal democratic societies, today it is the Red-Green alliance of liberals and Moslems which threatens the world. Neither fascism or communism can rule while a democratic society survives. Neither the Caliphate nor a UNtopia can exist so long as America leads the world.

We are losing this war on a strategic level (as in Vietnam, we are winning by every tactical measure) because we are failing to confront the enemy at home with the same vigor – and by the same means – as we confront the enemy abroad. We are opposed by two boxers, but we’re only punching one – conceding to the other the right to hit us again and again in the name of the freedom that they abuse.

Our failures on the home front – the uncontested battering that we’re taking – are making our struggle against the other fighter more difficult. We should have attacked Iraq in 2002, not 2003. 2003 should have been for Iran. 2004 for Syria. Who knows where we’d be by today? We are not where we should be – we have been delayed – because we have let our concerns for the rights and thoughts of people who are basically traitors to prevent or postpone action time and time again.

The left is never going to agree with this war – and they’re never going to wage it once in power – because it conflicts with their idealized vision of the world. They might launch limited strikes if public opinion demands it. They might arrest a few people – but they will not fight this enemy because they are the enemy as well.

Why is John Walker Lindh still alive? Why aren’t Cindy Sheehan and traitors like her in jail (or better yet, on death row!)? Why haven’t reporters who reveal national security secrets been thrown in jail? Why wasn’t Seymour Hersh punished for doing more damage to the war effort than any other single individual by disclosing what happened at Abu Ghraib? Why aren’t al-Qaeda supporters summarily executed? Why haven’t al-Jazeera and other pro-terrorist media had their facilities bombed and their reporters targeted for assassination?
Don’t say, “the Constitution.” As we have been reminded in the past, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. This is war and it needs to be fought like a war on all fronts. When Abraham Lincoln was President this nation knew what was to be done with traitors. If this nation is to survive now we must do it once again.