Getting the Left Into Fighting Shape

This could be an interesting read, in spite of the bad review.

No, I don't think war is such a good idea, for many reasons, not the least of which is that it is a losing strategy, according to every expert.

How can one fight a war on terror? By creating more terror? By becoming everything we hate and despise? By throwing away the law of civilized society? By allowing others to define who we are?

No, I don't think so.

Getting the Left Into Fighting Shape:

"This book has the wrong subtitle. Readers of the The Good Fight: Why Liberals, and Only Liberals, Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again would get more value for their dollar if the book had been How (Not Why) Liberals Can Win the War, etc.

No matter. This book has to be read as part of the thrust, parry, and jostle going on within the milky political spiral that is the Democratic Party. The author, Peter Beinart, is a war Democrat. His allegiance is to the Lieberman faction in the party. 'Just as Vietnam turned liberals against the cold war, Iraq has now turned them [Howard Dean-type liberals] against the war on terror. America badly needs an alternative vision,' he writes, 'for fighting global jihad. And yet the liberalism emerging today denies that fighting global jihad should even be a priority.'

Beinart himself is one of a string of New Republic guppies who have popped out of this pool watered by the rich men who own the magazine and are loosely affiliated with other rich war Democrats whose money has bought them no small control over the party's congressional wing. This faction's control used to extend to the party's day-in-day-out precinct workers, who tend to be hair-up-the-behind lefties of one sort or another, because the lefties had scant ability to raise campaign money. "