The President recalled, “When Hezbollah attacked Israel, I was in Germany and my instant reaction was this is a moment of clarity.” Bush said that Olmert was pursuing the vision he had campaigned on, the Sharon vision of a unilateral policy of withdrawal so long as the Palestinians “can’t get it right,” and “reaching out to Abbas and others.” Then Hamas and Hezbollah kidnapped Israeli soldiers. “The ideological struggle is being manifested as radicals attacking young democracies,” i.e. Lebanon and Iraq. “The extremists and radicals are flocking to Iraq to stop the flourishing of democracy.” In general, he said the War on Terror is “akin to the Cold War.” He rejected the complaint that the war has lasted longer than World War II. “World War II was nation-state versus nation-state.” He emphasized it is an ideological struggle. In the Cold War, he said, the truth won out. “This is a war where over time the truth will win, but there will be moments of kinetic action [i.e. military struggle]. Some you won’t see.” Like KSM. “And some you will see,” like “the Taliban’s attempted resurgence.” The U.S. role in his view is to: be steadfast; “articulate our deep belief in liberty”; be clear about the evil nature of the enemy; “stand with those moderate, rational people who want to succeed”; and to help foster democracy by “help[ing] the people who want to take risks.”