President Obama's much-anticipated speech at West Point on Tuesday constitutes an opportunity with the potential to be as strategically momentous as Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972.
Mr. Obama is in a unique position to tell the truth about the nature of the enemy we confront, not just in Afghanistan but worldwide, and thereby put the effort to defeat that enemy on a sound, coherent and supportable footing. Will he rise to the occasion?
With a Muslim background and a yearlong record of assiduous efforts to cultivate better relations with what he calls the "Muslim world," the president can exploit the sort of latitude his anti-communist predecessor did 37 years ago with an opening to Red China.
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