We're watching Jesse Jackson on CNN right now. These people have no idea what they're doing. It's tough to articulate a program the morning after you win by criticizing all possible plans that have been offered by right and center-right intellectuals and politicians.

What are they going to do about Iraq? They're apparently going to get some sort of coalition - probably the same one that Kerry was going to raise as soon as Bush was forced out of office. We had really thought that this idea died when UNSCAM was exposed - when people found out that France, Russia and China weren't pitching in because they had helped Saddam build palaces instead of feed his people. But apparently, there's still this idea out there on the left - or at least this assertion - that there are these armies out there just sitting to go to war with the Democrats. But those armies are apparently all hiding, because George Bush squandered the good will created by 9/11.

On top of everything else, Jackson repeated the election-era slander that the US went into Iraq "alone" (quote-unquote). He apparently doesn't think that the bravery and sacrifice of troops from our allies is worthy of notice – troops from the UK, Korea, Poland, Australia, Italy, Ukraine, Netherlands, Spain, Romania, Japan, Denmark, Georgia, Bulgaria, Thailand, El Salvador, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Nicaragua, Singapore, Azerbaijan, Norway, Latvia, Mongolia, Portugal, Albania, Slovakia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Lithuania, Armenia, Tonga, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Macedonia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Iceland, and Canada. Many of those troops paid the ultimate price for the bravery that Jesse Jackson denies exists.

Is Jesse Jackson an idiot or a liar? Is he unable to count?

And if he does know that there were troops from several dozen countries involved in the liberation of Iraq, what exactly does he think will be gained by insulting their bravery and denigrating their sacrifice? We know that he's got some kind of magic wand that he's going to use to create a coalition of French, Russian, and Chinese troops. But in the meantime, do the Democrats really think that the best way to promote multilateralism is to insult literally - literally - every single country that has been willing to fight shoulder to shoulder with the US thus far.

Previously:
How many Poles does it take to save democracy?, Report Proves UN Is Pervasively Corrupt, France Interferes With Progress on Iraq - Again