President Bush said on “60 Minutes” Sunday night that Americans must understand “we’re in an ideological struggle.”

That’s precisely the problem, Mr. President. We understand that.

We Americans will fight a war for our national interests and survival. That’s why we fought the Nazis and the Japanese. That’s why we fought the Cold War. That’s why – for a long time –we supported the Vietnam War.

We are willing to fight and sacrifice when an enemy poses a threat to our freedom.

Just as Americans were – and are – willing to fight and sacrifice to destroy Al Qaeda and Osama.

But the President has never made clear why we have to make war against an “ideology.”

What does Iraq have to do with that ideology? Those who believe in that ideology (read religion) seem hell-bent on murdering each other.

Why should our troops be in the middle of that?

The will of the American people is not at issue here. George Bush’s judgment is. He can’t persuade us this is a war worth fighting because – very simply – it’s not a war worth fighting.

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