One of my mentors, Norman Podhoretz, writes another great piece today in the Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal.com. It’s a lengthy read, but it’s worth it as always.
It’s called The Panic Over Iraq – What they’re really afraid of is American success.
[…] A goodly number of these Democrats (party chairman Howard Dean and Rep. Cynthia McKinney, to name only two) are the “Tories” of today, in the sense of having from the very beginning stood openly and unambiguously against the revolution in foreign policy represented by the Bush Doctrine and now being put to the test in Iraq. But a much larger number of Democrats fit more smoothly into Tom Paine’s category of “disguised” Tories. These are the congressmen and senators who in their heart of hearts were against the resolution authorizing the president to use force against Saddam Hussein, but who—given the state of public opinion at the time—feared being punished at the polls unless they voted for it. Now, however, with public opinion moving in the other direction, they have been emboldened to “show their heads.” […]
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