Ezra Klein writes:

Nevertheless, if Bush had come before the country in 2003 and explained that his plan to fight terror involved instituting an unstable Islamic regime in Iraq and making Hezbollah and Hamas the governments of Lebanon and Palestine, I’m not so certain reelection would have lay in his future.

Me: Uh huh. And if Bill Clinton announced in 1995 that his plan was to embolden Bil Laden or if FDR announced his plan was to sit back while the Nazis overrun Europe, or if Truman explained that he was hoping the Chinese would join the Korean conflict…if…if…if…