Monday, August 02, 2004
CAERDROIA TALKS STRATEGY
Jeff at Caerdroia has a hard-hitting post on strategy and why the Democrats do not have one for the War on Terror. It's excellent.
I'm hoping that, eventually, the Democrats return to being the party of Truman and JFK because it's not good for one of the two parties to be in the grip of declinist, defeatist, transnational progressive doves. The convention in Boston was, in terms of style at least, a nod away from that direction and toward political reality but I'm under no illusion that having camera shots of Democrats in military uniforms makes the Democratic Party eager to win this war ( or any war) than having Black faces at the GOP convention makes the Republican Party a booster of the NAACP agenda. It's going to take a generational change of guard, when the Boomers ease out of power positions, for the Democrats to return to the center again.
¶ 8:48 PM
Jeff at Caerdroia has a hard-hitting post on strategy and why the Democrats do not have one for the War on Terror. It's excellent.
I'm hoping that, eventually, the Democrats return to being the party of Truman and JFK because it's not good for one of the two parties to be in the grip of declinist, defeatist, transnational progressive doves. The convention in Boston was, in terms of style at least, a nod away from that direction and toward political reality but I'm under no illusion that having camera shots of Democrats in military uniforms makes the Democratic Party eager to win this war ( or any war) than having Black faces at the GOP convention makes the Republican Party a booster of the NAACP agenda. It's going to take a generational change of guard, when the Boomers ease out of power positions, for the Democrats to return to the center again.
¶ 8:48 PM
