I love it when unintended consequences work out in our favor. It’s such a rarity in life.

In two days, hopefully, we’ll wake up to President-Elect Barack Obama, and the face of America will be indelibly altered.

I try to imagine a young Afghan or Pakistani boy, sitting in a madrassa, looking at a picture of Barack Obama. I imagine it was easy to sell George W. Bush as the Great Satan, with that smug expression on his face. But the anti-western imams out there will soon have their work cut out for them, trying to sell the idea that a Kenyan-American named Barack Hussein Obama is the enemy of Isalm.

In two days, we may discover how to truly win the war on terror.

Two days