"ATTEMPTS TO BRIDGE"?

10 Questions For Ted Kennedy: After more than 40 years in the Senate, Ted Kennedy, 71, is still the icon of American liberalism. Yet he has also been at the center of recent attempts to bridge the party divide over issues ranging from education to prescription-drug benefits. TIME's Matthew Cooper talked to him about the art of compromise, as well as his famous family. (MATTHEW COOPER, 7/27/03, TIME)

[Q:] What should we be doing differently in Iraq?

[A:] I'm concerned that we have the world's best-trained soldiers serving as policemen in what seems to be a shooting gallery. It's hard to see how the situation will improve, unless the President is willing to involve NATO. There are 2 million troops in NATO with some of the most impressive and well-trained police units in the world--units that understand rioting, explosives, crowd control, and maintaining law and order.

There's what Democrats think American leadership should look like: it's a shooting gallery so we should get out and send in our allies instead. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 27, 2003 7:13 PM