Fiddling while Baghdad Burns?

Peter Mulhern:

Our leaders speak as if they can avoid responsibility for the next attack by predicting it. They don't seem aware that a grieving and enraged public isn't likely to get much satisfaction from a chorus of "I told you so."

Let's suppose that conventional wisdom is uncharacteristically correct about the prospects for more terrorism in the United States. How will the American public deal with the political class that saw attacks coming years ahead and frittered away the opportunity to deter them?

How indeed? Bush can be faulted for not winning fast enough to suit the hostile media, but those who are so anxious to follow John Murtha off the cliff will have no excuse.

The problem is that the mass media are mostly on the left end of the spectrum and will be loath to point this out. I suspect that the Republican Party will have to set up its own cable network to get its view of matters heard, especially if idiots like Dennis Kucinich succeeds in bringing back the Fairness Doctrine.