Does the United States still see southeast Asia as the second front in a war against terrorism?
Wolfowitz: Well, you know I spoke today about what I think of as the second front in the war on terrorism, and I used it not a geographic sense, but in a psychological political sense, that is to say the first front is killing and capturing terrorists which you have to do, but the second front is what President Bush referred to last year in the State of the Union message as building a just and peaceful world beyond the war on terror and in particularly in the Muslim world. I think clearly efforts have to be made to counter the sense of hopelessness and humiliation that I think affects many parts of the Muslim world, particularly the Arab world and that gives the extreme views more of an opportunity to propagate, gives terrorists more of a chance to recruit. So I think that supporting countries like Indonesia that are struggling to manage a successful transition to democracy, supporting countries like Turkey which is one of the I think models of progressing, not completely progressed, b
