The Washington Post reports that the War on Terror is over. No armistice has been announced. No treaty has been signed. The whole thing is just being dropped quietly, like a burnt-out cigarette. Too bad. It was our favorite war. In the few words that follow, we explain why. First, the background: "The history of the world is but the biography of great men," was Thomas Carlyle’s contribution to the genre. But here we are more of the ‘cometh the hour, cometh the man’ school of history. When something needs doing…there is always some clown dim enough to do it. … Continue reading The Good War