Friday, March 18, 2005

The New Yorker: "Most national-security Democrats believe that the Party?s problems on the issue go deeper than marketing. They agree that the Party should be more open to the idea of military action, and even preƫmption; and although they did not agree about the timing of the Iraq war and the manner in which Bush launched it, they believe that the stated rationale?Saddam?s brutality and his flouting of United Nations resolutions?was ideologically and morally sound. They say that the absence of weapons of mass destruction was more a failure of intelligence than a matter of outright deception by the Administration; and although they do not share the neoconservatives? enthusiastic belief in the transformative power of military force, they accept the possibility that the invasion of Iraq might lead to the establishment of democratic institutions there." Interesting article pointing out the deep division in the Democrat party on defense issues.

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