Are We Safer, or is Dr. Dean Right?

Are We Safer, or is Dr. Dean Right?

Charles Krauthammer has Howard Dean and his arrogance in the crosshairs. "Howard Dean may end up as a footnote in history, but he has already earned a place in the dictionary as the illustration accompanying the word smug. He claims that not only was he right that we are not safer with Saddam captured; not only has he already been vindicated by history, all 21 days of it; but he has been so obviously vindicated that his opponents, bowing to his superior wisdom, have stopped their attacks on this point."

Krauthammer chronicles all the improvements in the world over the last year and answers Dean's complaint that, because we're still losing soldiers, we are not safer, with this observation: "The first is the equivalent of saying that we were not safer after D-Day because we were still losing troops in Europe."