John Kerry Discovers the Winning Meme

From a speech delivered on Friday, February 27th:

I do not fault George Bush for doing too much in the War on Terror; I believe he’s done too little.

Here is Kerry's preliminary list of reforms: Kerry promises to add 40,000 troops to active duty, reform intelligence gathering services to prevent a replay of the WMD debacle, streamline the national terrorist watch list, work to cut off the flow of terrorist funds, particularly from Saudi Arabia where the Bush Administration has feared to tread, coordinate with other countries to track and prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction, retrain the Iraqi security force and stay in Iraq until the job is done, embark on a ten year program to make the U.S. energy independent of Middle East oil, fund homeland security programs that were promised funding by the Bush Administration but never got it, and improve technology at ports for screening for dangerous weapons.

That's a start, but there's plenty more to be done. The good news, however, is that the Democrats have started to rethink their position about war and national security. They will need to if they want to dominate presidential politics again.