… but the same subject — Bush’s leadership — Brummett takes on the administration’s  appeasenik theme. A suggested response for Democrats:

They should make the plain and evident case that the Bush administration has not confronted the evil enemy, but deployed a defensive, reactive strategy that emphasizes intercepting attacks that are in the works, not going to and destroying the persons actually doing the planning. Police work over military action, in other words.

And this strategy asks only one sacrifice of the American citizenry. It’s not one of public service or rationed resources or a special tax. It’s a sacrifice of our Constitution and its protections against governmental invasions of our privacy.

 

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