Sunday Roundup

The media reaction to the turmoil in Pakistan is as illogical as it is predictable. Given yet another example of how the president's disastrous foreign policy has left us all less safe, we are suddenly being showered with analysis that takes as a given that Bush and those who agree with him -- or have enabled him -- are better at keeping us safe. It's the same nonsense that prevailed in 2004, and is rearing its ugly head again in the '08 race. Witness the rapidly congealing conventional wisdom that Bhutto's murder will help the campaigns of Rudy Giuliani -- who has left no daylight between himself and Bush on Iraq and foreign policy -- and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate who took the longest to distance herself from Bush. The ticking time bomb in Pakistan brings home -- once again -- what a tragic distraction Iraq has been from where the real danger lies. Isn't it beyond time we all got the message?