Getting Back to Basics

Victor Davis Hanson writes in the NRO an article that wants to remind readers 'What this war is not about' and, presumably, we can understand what the war is about. I enjoyed reading it, not necessarily because I agree, but because it's forcing me to ask the question, "What are we in this for?". At this point, I have a notion that we are fighting to stay free because:

The mixture of autocracy, religious intolerance, and feelings of inferiority brought on by globalization has created a lethal brew in all the unfree parts of the Islamic Arab world. Again, our crisis is not really with the majority of Muslims who live under consensual or semi-democratic auspices — in Turkey, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, or India. Instead it is in the Middle East where a minority (encompassing millions) has turned to fundamentalism and hatred of a dominant West to account for the misery incurred by its own economic and political failures.

But, again, these are my leanings at this point, based on an admittedly small background on the subject.