So leading up to the attack on Iraq Democrats began complaining about Bush not working hard enough with other nations. Bush, they said, was a dangerous unilateralist, operating as the lone ranger, arrogantly conducting foreign policy as if his primary concern were American national security interests. Imagine that. How dare he not consider those delicate French feelings? How dare he not defer to the America-bashing, terrorist-coddling United Nations? What had gotten into that Texas cowboy anyway?

Then after we demolished the Iraqi army, Bush was entitled to no credit because he had alienated the nations of the world, notwithstanding the large number of nations in the coalition. You see, with "multilateralism" at your disposal, you can immediately transform your opponents' victories into virtual defeats. And it has the added advantage of relieving you of any obligation to answer the question of what you would have done differently (other than talk other recalcitrant nations to death, while paralyzing the United States and its security interests with inaction).

Democrats are coming out of the woodwork with this word. Senator Carl Levin used it on "Fox News Sunday." "We can't go it alone," said Levin, as if bringing in other nations (that, by the way, have steadfastly resisted) will automatically eliminate terrorist disruption and mayhem in Iraq. And Senator Joe Biden just wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post saying, "We have one last chance to bring the world into Iraq. It would require a genuine U-turn away from the unilateral model we've been following for securing and rebuilding Iraq."

If you don't believe the entire Democratic apparatus, from the bowels of Chairman Terry McAuliffe to the lofty reaches of its congressmen and presidential candidates, are using the word "multilateralism" to the point that they've seemingly forgotten about "Bush's tax cuts for the rich," then you just aren't paying close attention to current events.

If I were President Bush, I would make a unilateral, executive decision to continue ignoring these blowhards and their destructive rhetoric.