World War IV?

Today, Norman Podhoretz's latest book, World War IV: The Long Struggle Against Islamofascism, arrived in the mail. I've only begun to read it but a line in the prologue sums up well the opposing positions on the domestic front. To wit,

World War IV has given rise to a war of ideas on the home front. It is a war in which those of us who see Islamofascism as the latest mutation of the totalitarian threats to our civilization and who insist on the correlative necessity of meeting and defeating it, are pitted against those who think that the threat has been wildly exaggerated and does not in any case require a military response.

Having just finished Lone Survivor, I would only add that the problem on the home front lies, not only in convincing those well-intentioned Americans who, as Podhoretz suggests, do not recognize the threat or take it as seriously as they ought but also, and more importantly, defeating the insidious attempts by surly liberals in the media to sabotage the military dimension of the struggle via manipulation of public opinion. That is the real battle here. Marcus Luttrell, the Navy SEAL who penned Lone Survivor, recounts how he and his team were deeply afraid, not of the murderous terrorists ensconced in the caves of the Hindu Kush, but of the effete, perfidious media back home. A stunning confession, I thought.