BEWARE BEING WRONG

This is one of the dumbest things I've read in a while. Ranks along with Representative Tom Clark's recent silliness on the same lines. I wrote about something similar here; let me amend that post by saying that if Eisenhower could run on a platform against the Truman administration's war policies in North Korea, at the beginning of the Cold war -- and yes, that's the ex-Supreme Allied Commander, highest ranking military member to serve as President in recent memory, Republican Eisenhower -- then surely Democrats can oppose this administration's war on terrorism and still remain within the realms of responsible politics. Every responsible person thinks that international terrorism is a serious security problem. Not everyone thinks that the best way to fight international terrorism is to invade and occupy a country without direct links to the particular international terrorist group you're most worried about. The jury is still out, at any rate.

If Osama bin Laden thinks that Kerry will prove more congenial to him, then bin Laden is a moron, pure and simple. And in my humble estimation, James Lileks is letting his partisan affinities get the best of him when he argues otherwise.