Slash 'n burn Dems

Two interesting columns crossed my path this morning: one from the Cleveland Plain Dealer relates to the Bush-hating campaign (really, the issues aren't relevant, whatever Bush proposes must_be_defeated!) that never stopped (in Ohio) and the second is an op/ed about the President's next steps in the war on terror. The connection? In closing a National Review article entitled "Next Acts," Paul Johnson writes:

"It seems to me that President Bush should ask himself and his closest colleagues the deadly question: How have we allowed our enemies to demonize me and our country? How is it that educated people all over the world have come to believe that our necessary and disinterested war against terror and mass murder, and in favor of democracy and freedom, is in fact aggressive and wicked? Why did we lose this vital battle while winning all the others? Granted the need to embark on the second phase of the War on Terror — involving perhaps preemptive strikes against nuclear terrorism — it is essential that America’s case be forcefully, intelligently, and effectively put this time. This may involve important institutional changes. It will certainly involve bringing forward clever men and women who understand the arts of geopolitical presentation — and giving them the means to practice these arts. But, not least, it needs the conviction in the White House and the whole administration that the battle to establish the moral case for American policy, all over the world, has hitherto been needlessly and heedlessly lost, and that it can and must be won."

To me, this is the most (in Ann Coulter's words) TREASONOUS aspect of the Left's slash-and-burn tactics for regaining some--any!, political power in Washington. It is a marketing campaign that is, at best, recklessly anti-American.