A CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONSIs it possible to climb up any higher on the rhetorical ladder? We still have almost two months until the electionhttp://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/11/bush.transcript/[Bush] Five years ago, this date -- September the 11th -- was seared into America's memory. . . Since that day, America and her allies have taken the offensive in a war unlike any we have fought before. . .