Kevin Drum waxes on about Rumsfeld's insistence on a Cold War military and says that Democrats should take the Bush White House to town on this. After all, if they're still spending outrageous amounts of money on weapons that don't really fight terrorism, can't we score some National Security points? As he says, "it's not just good politics, it's good policy."

But I have a different idea. Sure it's worth preparing for the coming conflict with China (maybe), but aren't we supposed to be locked in a global struggle for our very lives against TERROR? Maybe this isn't gross incompetence so much as a tacit admission that terrorism just isn't as bad as the government (namely the Republicans) have been screaming for the last 5 years. 3,000 people died on September 11, but will Osama be marching on the White House anytime soon? No. Remember terror alerts? And how they mostly dissappeared after the Presidential election? I generally like to assume that these people aren't stupid, but that usually just leads to "corrput" or "nasty." Maybe all of this fearmongering that keeps terrifying the scared wittle Republicans into ditching all of their civil liberties doesn't ever make it across Rumsfeld's desk.