A Liberal War on Terror

A nice number by Martin Frost over at Fox News about the need for liberals to take on the fight against terror.

Beinart, a young, articulate editor and writer for the New Republic, has explained in great detail why liberals who adhere to their traditional pro-defense position can successfully lead our country in the war against terror. It’s something I have been thinking about for a long time.

Beinart and I both supported President Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003. Since then, we have both had serious second thoughts because of the degree of false information about weapons of mass destruction put forward by the Bush administration to justify the use of force against Saddam Hussein, and the sloppy way this administration has handled the situation in Iraq after the initial combat success.

However, as Beinart correctly points out in his book, this does not mean that liberals should also oppose strong action against radical Muslim jihadists who conspire to harm our country. Quite the contrary, liberals should be at the forefront of the fight against terrorists like Usama bin Laden-- just as liberals fought communists for control of American labor unions in the 1940’s, and just as liberals kept communism out of western Europe following World War II.