TALKING ABOUT TALKING ABOUT. I'm basically agnostic on whether
Democrats should welcome a national security debate this fall.
If the Democrats weren't such a bunch of fools and knaves, a
rollicking, high-intensity discussion over George W. Bush's
failing war, bin Laden's surprisingly successful game of hide-
and-seek, and the unpreparedness for disaster that Katrina
exposed would be a welcome additive to the GOP's anxieties. But
the Democrats often are a bunch of fools and knaves, so who
knows how it'll wash out.  What they really do need to stop
doing is complaining every time the GOP brings up national
security. Every time Republicans bring up security in a pointed
fashion, Democrats commence whining about "politicizing" terror.
Terror, however, is political, just as health care, jobs, and
unemployment numbers are. When Democrats appear reluctant to
even discuss the issue, voters conclude, rightly, that they
either don't know what they think, don't know what they'd do, or
are too scared to verbalize their ag