We're Very Different People -

It's become an trite observation; "these people just don't see things the way we do". When I hear people say - or read people blog - things like "capturing Hussein doesn't make us safer", I am at a loss for a response.

Hewitt, fortunately, is not:

Hours after the Homeland Security alert level was raised on Sunday, a poster at the blog Dean for America made this comment which is representative of opinion among the Dean Dongs: "Dean's remarks about national security and the Saddam capture not making the US any safer has [sic] been validated by today's Orange Alert."

There's no arguing with such reasoning, even by pointing out that although banks continued to be robbed after Dillinger was killed, banks were indisputably safer than when he was alive and among the robbers. The left does not want to understand the war on terror because to understand it is to leave the left and join the center-right on issues of deterrence and preemption, and especially in the center-right's suspicion of the impotence of international organizations on matters of national security.

And this is what I'm finding - some of my responsible Democrat friends, the ones with enough background in history to qualify as "acceptably literate", are starting to have doubts about their party and its front-runner.

If Lieberman or Gephardt don't get the nod - and they won't - they're seriously wondering if they can vote for their party.

Good.

Posted by Mitch at December 23, 2003 05:53 AM