The liberals simply cannot make themselves agree to any kind of coherent strategy because in their hearts they believe we deserve what's coming to us from the jihadists.
I've resisted that conclusion, because it's just too knee-jerk--"They hate America, we love it"--and easy. I can't tell if they hate America, but I do believe they've shown they hate THIS America, and they dream of what it COULD be--aka the USSR but with all the "Mistakes" corrected.
But that's beside the point. The liberals' dirty little secret, which they simply can't cop to, is that they all believe we had 9-11 coming. We are the Evil World Power that causes hunger and poverty because we all have ipods (so do they, but, well, it's different, they listen to 60's protest music on theirs) and watch TV (so do they but, well, it's different, because Seinfeld is so Ironic and Depserate Housewives is about female empowerment), and we eat more food and use more oil than anyone else, and by Marxist guidelines that means we're taking that stuff from someone else. So Al Qaeda (even though it's funded by the rich) is a Revolutionary War-like struggle against The Powerful, and they are only using violence because they are Angry that Their Truth can't be heard over the drones of our TVs and ipods and SUV's.
The libs can't come up with a position to fight terrorism because while they want terrorism to end, they don't want to do any more evil to stop it--evil being actually commiting acts of violence that will kill more innocent bystanders, which happens in any war, like it or not.
They are the political contingent of those who only want to deal with what they WANT to be true as opposed to what IS. And they haven't the spirit to fight against attackers they think have a point. So this writer's attempt to get the libs into the war is doomed to failure, unless the libs can find a way to prove that Al Qaeda is actually made up of rich white guys, preferably from Texas.
I've been saying all along, and will say it again, that 9-11 is still THE issue of the past couple of elections and will be THE issue of this one--sorry illegal immigration ... groupies.And "illegal immigration groupies" are saying that the biggest next-9-11 threat to the USA comes from our out-of-controlborders. And a growing segment of the populace agrees with them.
In other words, 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend'!