Matt has a go:
In essence, [Fred] Hiatt is under assault from straw men of his own devising. Having mischaracterized the opponents of the Bush foreign policy, he’s now confronted with what such opponents actually think and concluded that they don’t oppose Bush’s policy at all. But there’s obviously a huge difference between the Bush/Romney approach of defining the United States as locked in endless combat with an amorphous and endlessly-growing set of frightening Muslims and saying you’re going to dedicate serious energy to focusing on and targeting al-Qaeda. These aren’t just different things, they’re opposing sentiments.
The Dish 