Is the "War on Terror" actually World War III?

That is what one columnist thinks. And I don't think he is far off. The difference is that the columnist thinks that the Bush Administration has no idea how to fight this war. Rather, I think that they are fighting the war every way they know how. Every front, every tool, short of multiple wars in multiple nations across the Middle East. But a democratic, secure Iraq is still the key to turning the tide... even if we only understand when "stability" is reached in retrospect.