Angelo M. Codevilla

About the author: Angelo M. Codevilla is a professor of politics and international relations at Boston University and a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank.

In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America, the United States has touted increased homeland security measures and better intelligence operations as the preferred means of winning the war on terror. However, common sense dictates that victory in war means destroying the enemy. In the war on terror, the enemy is not Islam or even terrorist networks like al Qaeda. Rather, the enemy is the regimes in Iraq and Syria, as well as the Palestinian Liberation Authority, that train, finance, and harbor terrorists and promote anti-Western sentiments. These regimes, and...