Why am I not swept with confidence?

This piece is based on a new book with "15 essays by leading foreign policy thinkers in the Democratic Party."

Partly because of his errors in Iraq, partly due to his own shortcomings as a communicator, and partly due to the myopia of his top aides at the Pentagon and elsewhere, the president has failed to rally progressive forces, both in the West and in the Middle East, against an ideology that is profoundly hostile to liberal values and to the humane ethos of genuine Islam.

Excuse me, but this sounds like it's leading up to a reprise of John Kerry's plan to "rejoin the community of nations." You know. Like the community that Saddam bought off with the Oil For Food Program.

Rally progressive forces? Isn't that what we've been doing in Darfur?