Oh yeah

From the same post:

I think Obama’s response is interesting for two reasons. First, it demonstrates better than anything in the last nine years why we are losing the war against totalitarian Islam.

I was going to say something snarky here, but then I realized, I had no idea what the hell he's talking about. Let's grant, for the sake of argument, that Totalitarian Islam is an entity of sufficient coherence to be capable of having war waged against it. Grant also, all evidence to the contrary, that we are in fact at war with it. What grounds are there for claiming that we're losing? What does that even mean?

I might argue that, well, the Not-Ground Zero Not-Mosque controversy is playing right into our enemies hands, and that the wholesale abandonment of civil liberties we've seen over the last ten years make Our Side a whole lot less worthy of defense, but I'm one of those un-American liberal defeatist types. Myrhaf is a Conservative, a Real American Patriot, a True Son of Liberty, and he thinks that these are both positive developments.

After that, I got nothing. Al-Quaeda is still unpopular pretty much everywhere, and haven't pulled off anything noteworthy in years. The Taliban have less influence, even now, than they did ten years ago. Iran is still an international pariah with limited resources. And all this after seven and a half years in Iraq where we did everything in our power to turn the ideals of Western Democracy into a sad joke.

But if the world at large is much the same, there is one thing that changed over the last decade. Ten years ago, the Middle East barely existed, and bin Laden was a mere figment of domestic politics: an excuse for one of President Clinton's typically ineffective maneuvers to distract America from what really mattered, which was his penis. Then 9/11 happened, and the American Right had to confront the fact that there was a big scary world out there.

That's why Real Americans like Myrhaf think totalitarian Islam is winning. If it was losing, they wouldn't have to think about it.