As someone just pointed out to me, the problem that Democrats like Kerry and Biden have is that they make these ultra-harsh critiques of Bush, but 1) they don’t really have a competing theory for how to approach the Middle East and the war on terror (at least not one they are willing to starkly articulate and defend); 2) they aren’t willing to go down the road of a MoveOn.org and call for a fundamental departure from our current policy. So they huff and puff–and offer relatively minor suggestions around the edges.