LEE HARRIS offers an assessment of Howard Dean’s military policy.

UPDATE: Alex Bensky emails:

I’m sorry in a way to have followed your link to the article on this topic. I have voted Democratic in every election in which I’ve been eligible. I wish I could take back the one for McGovern. If there was ever a year to vote Prohibitionist that was it.

But despite Bush’s economic and financial policies, which I think do verge on class warfare, I may wind up voting for him. Certainly I never heretofore even considered the possibility of voting Republican for president.

Elmer Davis once wrote that “the first requirement of any society is that it win its war.” I don’t think Dean understands that we are at war. I don’t think he knows much about foreign and defense policy, and I deeply distrust his instincts. Nor would I have any confidence in the advisors he’d likely choose.

There are very few issues which alone would determine my vote for president. This is one of them. I think it has to be.

Well, Dean is, I think, still feeling his way, and there’s always the possibility that he’ll improve.