As longtime readers of the site know, well before all the messiness of the lead-up to the Iraq War, I wrote a number of columns and articles on the Democrats’ fundamental incoherence and lack of seriousness about national security issues. Here’s an example I wrote last year in The New York Post. Bill Clinton began, briefly, to turn this around. But the last two years have shown a sorry regression. The key to solving this problem is to recognize that it is not a cosmetic problem, but one woven into fabric of the contemporary Democratic party and center-left. (If you want to know more about what I think the problem is, take a look at this column.) This evening I’d like to point you to a new website from a new organization: Democrats for National Security. I don’t know if they’ll be the group that will help bring change. But they’re identifying the problem and beginning an effort to grapple with it.
