Netanyahu defends right to defense

Benjamin Netanyahu defends Israel's right to self-defense in the Wall Street Journal (via Weekly Standard blog). As the headline says, "Militant Islam threatens us all", and at the end:

We fight to defend ourselves, but in so doing we are also fighting a fanatical ideology that seeks to reverse the course of history and throw the civilized world back into a new dark age. The struggle between militant Islam and modernity -- whether fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, India or Gaza -- will decide our common future. It is a battle we cannot afford to lose.

Nor can the US afford to lose it.