That Lucid Freedom Thing

Contrast Barbara Boxer's confusion about freedom (post below) with WSJ Opinion Journal's James Taranto's clarity:

When President Bush cited the Koran in his speech, he wasn't engaging in a historical, feel-good multiculturalism. He was delivering a message to civilized Muslims everywhere: You need not forsake your religion to live in freedom. If instead we were to assume, as Zarqawi does, that democracy and liberty are the exclusive province of Jews, Christians and other "infidels," we would thereby condemn the Muslim world to unending tyranny--and ourselves to unending terror.

That's the last paragraph of a long and important essay on President Bush's speech and the concept of Americanism. It's well worth reading in its entirety.