Spot the spoiler. (Comments).(lack of Democratic Party opposition to war with Iraq)

BEMOANING THE FAILURE OF the Democratic Party to lead has become a newsroom sport. In The New Republic's version, the Dems have squandered their Roosevelt-Truman-Kennan foreign-policy heritage by wimping out on Iraq. In New York Times columnist Tom Friedman's rendition, "The problem with the Democrats is not that they are being drowned out by Iraq. The problem is that the Democrats have nothing to say on all the issues besides Iraq."

Here at The American Prospect, we applaud the qualms expressed by some leading Democrats about Bush's Iraq misadventure, which recall ...