Victor Davis Hanson wrote in his Memorial Day essay, "After Iraq, the reputation of bin Laden and radical Islam has not been enhanced as alleged, but has plummeted. For all the propaganda on al Jazeera, the chattering classes in the Arab coffeehouses still watch Americans fighting to give Arabs the vote, and radical Islamists in turn beheading men and women to stop it."

I don't think there is a much stronger image for this Memorial Day. Americans fighting for freedom is this country's founding principle.