ADESNIK FOR KERRY?

One of Oxblog’s finest makes the pro-war case for the Democrat. He homes in on my fundamental concern, the thing that has kept me from taking the plunge: Kerry’s “total resistance to making any positive statement about the importance of ensuring a democratic outcome in Iraq.” I worry about that too. I don’t think it’s too late to rescue the mission. I fear Kerry is too skeptical of democracy in Arab countries and doesn’t grasp how transformative it can be. But Adesnik makes an interesting case that this shouldn’t be dispositive. I’m still working on my own endorsement. I was planning on just abstaining. But that’s a cop-out.