Now I would not prescribe such tactics as those employed by the KGB and our illustrious Pershing for the modern age. I would not even prescribe the ribaldry of our ill-trained troops at sexy Abu Ghraib Prison. But I would say we can and should get a lot tougher with the thugs. The Marines should have been allowed to work their will on Fallujah, which is obviously a center of the gangsterism now threatening the future of a peaceful and stable Iraq. Doubtless there are other centers from which the thugs filter out to destroy their countrymen and our peacekeeping forces.

Sen. Jean-Francois Kerry is prescribing precisely the wrong policy for dealing with Iraq. Actually, it goes beyond being wrong. It is delusional. He talks as though once he is in office, the United Nations and perhaps NATO will come in with gentle persuasion to pacify the primitive anarchy that is Iraq. He ignores the fact that President Bush prevailed on the United Nations and NATO before and got nowhere. In his megalomania, Kerry acts as though he is more influential on the world stage than Bush. He launches pipe dreams such as, "The principles that should guide American policy in Iraq now and in the future are clear: We must make Iraq the world's responsibility."

 A noble ideal that, but frankly I think Putin and Pershing have a better idea than Kerry of how to make people act responsibly.