Down With The DLC

Excellent post by Digby regarding recent DLC claptrap purveyed by Will Marshall. Digby concludes:

Being lectured all the time by effete DC Democrats on "patriotism" because I don't back their reflexively hawkish foreign policy is not only insulting it's dumb. It plays into stereotypes that only serve the Republicans by turning this into a dick measuring contest when we should be turning the conversation into who can get the job done. I would submit that if anyone's been traumatized by the Vietnam experience it's the tired Democratic national security hawks who are always rushing to support military action, no matter how insanely counterproductive, because some Republican somewhere might call him a pussy. They've been around since the 60's too. Hell, they've been around forever.

We COULD have signed on to the war-hawk patriot plan IF the WMD danger from Iraq had been accurately characterized by the Bush Administration. "Trust us," they said, and despite our doubts, we mostly did.

After the lurid WMD scare was shown to be utter bunk in April, 2003, war-hawkery is now utterly dead as a viable project for the Democratic future - this isn't 1960 anymore - heck, it isn't even 2004! Anyone who signs on to warhawkery is a fool AND a loser: old lies expire quickly in the market of American politics!

Since Sept. 11th, our highest-profile (even if not most-important) national security problem is Al Qaeda, not Iraq, and America will reward the party with the best, most-innovative approaches on THAT front. Republican warhawkery is ineffective and bankrupt: Democrats can do better!