Power Line links to an article in the London Times by William Shawcross:
Even those who were opposed to the invasion of Iraq should recognise that this is a whole new battle — between the values of a liberal civil society and nihilism, sometimes Islamic but always nihilism.
Not at all coincidentally, "the values of a liberal civil society and nihilism" are also the precise battle lines that have been fought domestically in the US culture war
since the late 1960s.