World War 4 & Bush's Doctrine

Hat tip to Wretchard at Belmont Club for his thoughts and link to a great piece by Norman Podhoretz.
Wretchard says:

This extensive article is nothing less than an attempt to understand the Global War on Terror in the context of the last 60 years. Podhoretz compares the manner in which GW Bush met the threat posed by radical Islam to Harry Truman's response to the Soviet Union, and to a lesser extent, the way Roosevelt faced global fascism. The articles argues that in terms of scope, potential deadliness and the fundamental nature of issues, the current struggle against radical Islamism ranks as a World War. Podhoretz lays out the themes of Bush's policy speeches side by side with their implementation and concludes the President has founded his strategy on four pillars.

1. The idea that Western civilization is worth
   fighting for in a contest with an ideology which aims to destroy it;
2. That regimes which abet this hostile ideology will
   be destroyed or reformed;
3. That America has the right not merely to respond,
   but to pre-empt enemy action; and
4. That the Arab-Israeli issues will be judged by
   their contribution to the goal of creating democratic institutions in the Middle
   East, and not upon any grounds of historical entitlement.

Wretchard also says

Watered by the defeatism of Jimmy Carter and egged on by the Western "intelligensia", radical Islam appears less a malevolent force in its own right then the longed-for "exterminator" which will carry out the sentence of guilt which the Left has passed.

Therefore it is necessary, but not enough, to win another victory against oppressors in other countries; it's also past the time for the West to triumph against the dark recesses of its own soul.