President Bush has staked America's security on his policy of spreading "democracy"--i.e., unlimited majority rule--throughout the Middle East. But the democratic victory by the terrorist group Hamas is further proof that the President's strategy is suicidal.

Our enemy in the Middle East is not a handful of unpopular dictators and terrorists, but a popular, militant ideological movement--Islamic totalitarianism--that enjoys support by numerous regimes. The Islamic totalitarian enemy cannot be defeated by bringing the vote to the civilians who support, sympathize with, or appease it. Victory can only be achieved by defeating the enemy; that means doing whatever it takes to end state support of Islamic totalitarianism and Islamic terrorism.