People who focus on problems but not solutions will be characterized as whiners, wimps,
radicals and cut and runners, and perhaps for good reason.
Opposition to a problem is not the same as a solution to a problem. Withdrawl from Iraq solves the problem of our troops in Iraq but not the problem of Iraq, or the middle east, or Iran, or Oil. We absolutely have to take on the big issues, otherwise the Leibermans or even Frists of the world may very well win in November and 2008.
We have needed candidates who can tell it like it is for some time and for many issues, this is no time to be ignoring the elephants in the room.
If Democrats think that simply withdrawing from Iraq and labeling themselves "antiwar" is some sort of a solution, let alone a platform which will inspire the 60% of voters who initially supported the war they are mistaken. That's why Karl Rove loves such a strategy. Democrats will be labeled as wimps forfeiting any role in "The Big Game" for resources in the middle-East.
We must show the voters the connection between neocon middle-East policy and our energy needs.
Show the voters that the neocons failed to tell us that Iraq and the current Iran gambit is about control of energy resources. Furthermore while spending a trillion dollars in Iraq they are doing little to spur American innovation and technology to develop alternatives.
Thus far it looks like we will forfeit the "big game" issue, the incompetence issue, the issue of the neocons "cut and running" from our moral obligation in Iraq, under the "you broke it you fix it" rule, to give back to Iraqi mothers and children some little bit of what we promised them.