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Victor Davis Hansen offers the Dems a chance to outflank GWB as defenders of American safety:
The Democratic leadership should step up to the plate and, in Truman-esque fashion, forge a bipartisan front to confront Iran and make the most of their multilateral moment. If the Democrats feel they have lost the public’s confidence in their stewardship of national security, then the threat of Iran offers a Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, or John Kerry an opportunity to get out front now and pledge support for a united effort — attacking Bush from the right about too tepid a stance rather from the predictable left that we are “hegemonic” and “imperialistic” every time we use force abroad.
Finally, the public must be warned that dealing with a nuclear Iran is not a matter of a good versus a bad choice, but between a very bad one now and something far, far worse to come.
The Dems won't do it, of course. They don't appear to care about a nuclear Iran dedicated to the destruction of the West. All they care about is a poorly-constructed strategy for getting elected.
But showing strength in defending America militarily, might be their best chance at doing so.
