[Urbane Guerrilla]

Jay, the reason that question is so vexed is the current context of events: the Republican Party, now in power, is actually trying to fight the war. It may have been helpful to formally declare that a the US is in a state of war, which would have had the effect of obligating these parties to put all differences aside and concentrate on pulling together, but it seemed out of proportion, disjunct, at the time -- and it still does. The Democratic Party, by contrast, has no plan whatsoever to fight the war, none to win it better than the Republicans might, an inclination to carp about it in the most irresponsible, soft-on-antidemocracies manner that gave the Soviets such a free hand to work their will to make life suck internationally and not just domestically, and generally indulge in the most foolish acts of party empire-building I've ever seen in my country. The national leadership of the Democratic Party has completely forfeited my trust for the foreseeable future by this exhibition, this following of the far-left lunatic fringe.

We've got two kinds of people: those who know the Islamo-fascists are our enemy, self-made and self-declared, and those who couldn't correctly identify our real enemy on a multiple-choice question. Most of the senior leadership of the Democratic Party takes actions that say they believe the true enemy is the Republican Administration. What fools! What addlepated, ninnyhammered, scrotum-knotted invertebrates!