More on the Rummy Memo

More on the Rummy Memo - Sullivan sums up my reaction better than I do:

It's the most reassuring statement on the terror war I've yet read. The important thing about any administration in its third year is that it not be complacent, that it not be in denial, and that it ask tough questions of itself. Rumsfeld sure is no McNamara. And if I were a terrorist, I'd be alarmed at how earnest the U.S. government now is about tackling the threat. Of course, a MoDo column ridiculing this is now inevitable. Which is more indication that it's an encouraging sign.

The fact that at this point a senior administration official is honestly appraising the situation - the bad and the good - is a sign that this isn't some transient political quick fix. Whether the memo was or wasn't an intentional leak - and I see good arguments favoring both - it means that this administration can be trusted to be sober, industrious and self-critical in its foreign policy, in a way that the opposition simply can't.

Let the Dems spin this any way they want (and most of the major lefty blogs seem to be silent - I've found very little comment on credible blogs outside of Josh Marshall, below); this is good news.

UPDATE: Jared Keller has an exhaustive and excellent take on this.