. . . should it succeed despite their puerile detachment--or, worse, their objections--Democrats could well be branded as the party that opposes bringing human rights and responsible governance to people who don't yet benefit from them. And that could change U.S. politics for a generation.
More immediately, liberals must realize that they have to be willing to support the Bush administration in the Middle East if they want to have anything to say about democracy elsewhere in the world.
Meanwhile, Joe Klein at Time Magazine writes: "Look who has a shot at the Nobel Peace Prize: George W. Bush."Related to all of this, Peggy Noonan wrote in the Wall St. Journal last week that "the world right now [finds itself] in an interesting place. For America a moment of unaccustomed satisfaction; for the West a moment of unaccustomed admiration for the American president; for the world's left a moment of unaccustomed doubt; and for many, of all persuasions, a sense of wonderment."
