Go, L Team! Recall the Days of Glory and Stop Waffling

William Grimes in The New York Times reviews The Good Fight by Peter Beinart.

Unfortunately, as Mr. Beinart sees it, the grim slog in Iraq is encouraging a dangerously isolationist, even defeatist, mood in the Democratic Party. He cites a poll, taken after the 2004 elections, showing that Republicans, and Americans overall, believed that dismantling Al Quaeda was one of the top two foreign-policy objectives for the United States. Among Democrats, it tied for 10th. He finds this disheartening.