Captain Ed states exactly what I’ve been thinking ever since Hillary started screeching about Iran. I’ve been intending to try to articulate this, but the Captain says it perfectly. [Emphasis mine]

However, the missing ingredient is that Democrats have a bigger problem than lacking a coherent theme; they’ve lacked a coherent program, especially on national security. Nowhere does that come across more than in the divergent approaches to Iran and Iraq. For three years, Democrats have screamed that the Bush administration has taken a “unilateral” approach to Iraq and trashed our relationship with European allies — despite trying for five months to get them to enforce 12 years worth of useless UN resolutions. Suddenly with Iran, the Democratic front-runner claims that allowing Europe a significant role in negotiations amounts to “outsourcing” America’s responsibilities, and they scream that George Bush hasn’t been unilateral enough.

For that matter, the NSA program gives voters another stiff neck from the Pong Game Of Politics that Democrats have employed. Since 9/11, Democrats have sought to blame the Bush administration for being asleep at the switch before 9/11 and dragging their feet afterwards in protecting the country from further attack. However, when the New York Times revealed this program that the administration put into place — and about which they kept key Democrats fully briefed continuously since — all of a sudden they start screaming about personal privacy, when most Americans worry about stopping the next al-Qaeda attack. The most vocal start threatening impeachment when many people start feeling relieved that the attack-free period following 9/11 doesn’t appear to have been a mere fluke after all.