James Woolsey spoke at UCLA yesterday and pointed out the nature of the war we’re engaged in. CNN reports:

He said the new war is actually against three enemies: the religious rulers of Iran, the “fascists” of Iraq and Syria, and Islamic extremists like al Qaeda.

Woolsey told the audience of about 300, most of whom are students at the University of California at Los Angeles, that all three enemies have waged war against the United States for several years but the United States has just “finally noticed.”

You rarely see it pointed out outside of places like the National Review, that there’s an entire diseased Isalmofascist culture that wants to rule the world in a particularly despotic manner, and that the action in Iraq is just one campaign in the broader war against that culture.