Kerry's Global Vision Thing

From Best of the Web quoting a story from The Boston Globe:

"If you have a global sense of purpose, the capacity of an insurgency to take hold becomes much harder," Kerry said. "It's not just focused on the Americans, it's not the 'infidels' that they're killing. It's a broader approach. Now, maybe it doesn't work, but I'll tell you this, if it doesn't work, it's because this administration has gone too far down the road the other way and they have locked us into a much more complicated outcome. But it didn't have to be this way." [Emphasis added]

James Taranto notes that "maybe it doen't work" and says it's revealing, "This guy isn't exactly Winston Churchill, is he? But of course once again, he is pre-emptively blaming President Bush for the failures of his own policy."

On the other hand, Kerry might get along famously with the Iraqis who have for at least a century blamed all their problems on the West. He seems willing to accept it, for the Republicans.

Actually Taranto's whole comment is incisive and cogent. Read the whole thing.