Color me Confused

This strikes me as very odd. Derbyshire saying that terrorism is no big deal? The grosser means of earlier wars — carpet-bombing, ethnic internment, mass exclusion, government requisition of entire industries — are not appropriate. We all feel that instinctively. Why do we feel it? Because we know that the end — the suppression of a worldwide nuisance — is not really that important, except in the president’s flights of gassy rhetoric. Fear of Islamic terrorism is the only reason to do anything in Iraq, isn't it? Does this mean Derbyshire will be Ann Coultered (booted) out of NRO? Probably not - he did write this, after all...