Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.

There's no question that jihad historically means war.

have declared war on human nature, and nature is exacting an awful retribution.

For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.