The Democratic Party Blog is inhabited by children. That is the only way to explain the simplistic view of the world embodied in a post like this:

Tonight in his speech, president Bush plans to bring up Osama bin Laden:

The only way our enemies can succeed is if we forget the lessons of September 11 ... if we abandon the Iraqi people to men like Zarqawi ... and if we yield the future of the Middle East to men like Bin Laden.

Bush doesn’t get it. There’s an easy way to make sure we don’t “yield the future of the Middle East” to bin Laden: catch him.

Okay, raise your digital hand if you think that, somehow, President Bush doesn’t realize that we need to capture bin Laden? Raise your hand if you think that there are any people in his administration who don’t find capturing bin Laden to be an important goal. Raise that hand really, really high if you actually think that capturing bin Laden is anything resembling a simple task.

Now, here’s the really important one: raise your hand if you think that capturing or killing bin Laden will end our war against militant Islam or magically bring peace and prosperity to the Middle East.

Capturing bin Laden is an important strategic goal, but it is hardly the only goal and would most certainly not mark the end of the campaign. Jesse Berney, who authored that original post on the Democrats.org blog, is indulging in a simplistic attack that brings absolutely no real thought to the task at hand. Like a terribly clever child, he seems to think that his quip rises to the level of actual critique.

Update: Somehow, this post by Michelle Malkin seems to fit in with the overall mood of my post.