One of Ours

....Not content with announcing that he will retreat under fire in Iraq, [prime minister-elect, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero] on Wednesday called the situation there a "fiasco" and said he hoped Kerry would win. Friends like that Kerry doesn't need.

...So what's a Democratic candidate to do? It's a no-brainer if you ask me:

Kerry should give a speech outlining a muscular approach to fighting the war on terror, in which he explicitly rejects Zapatero's support and calls the comments of people like him and European Union chief Romano Prodi (he of "[U]sing force is not the answer to resolving the conflict with terrorists" fame) unhelpful and irresponsible. True, Kerry has already said he disagrees with Zapatero's decision to pull out of Iraq. But actually picking a fight would go a long way toward demonstrating he's not going to take guff from any weak-kneed Europeans--and, needless to say, would go over pretty well in middle America...