Why DO We Need Further Convincing?

Victor Davis Hanson once again lays out the case against Muslim terrorism in
this September 1 article on the National Review Online website.

Titled "The Waiting Game:Do we really need further convincing of the threat we face?"
it makes for compelling reading, as his writing always does, and he ends this way:

"Given Iraq, Afghanistan, and the acrimony at home — so similar to the debate right before Pearl Harbor over the earlier discounted fascist threat to the United States —we apparently are waiting for the enemy to strike again, before renewing the offensive. So while we keep our defenses up at home, foster democracy in the heart of the Middle East in Afghanistan and Iraq, and hope the globalized march of modernity undermines jihadism faster than it can disrupt the 21st century, we also wait — for the next blow that we know will come."

And when that blow does come, it will be George W. Bush's fault, of course, and once again we will hear about the "root causes" and the oppression of Muslims -- and nothing will change.