I wish Beinart well. But he's toast:

"It's certainly possible that mainstream Democrats are more in line with Beinart's views than I give them credit for. But Drum's statement doesn't pass the straight-face test. As Beinart told David Horowitz, he's calling for liberals not to let their national security views be defined like groups like MoveOn and people like Michael Moore. In fact, Beinart's original article on the subject called for a purge of these left-wing elements from the Democratic party. And Beinart cites a Pew poll that in 2004 asked conservatives and liberals to indicate their top foreign policy priority. For conservatives, destroying al-Qaeda was number one. For liberals it was tenth. [ Now there's a huge surprise. ] (To be sure, Beinart contrives to blame President Bush for the Democrats' lack of urgency when it comes to destroying al-Qaeda). [ And as usual, all W's fault that they can't prioritize their way out of a brown paper bag. ] Thus, Drum's twin claims that no gap exists between Beinart and the Kos crowd, and that essentially all liberals are hawks, cannot be taken seriously except perhaps as evidence of how profoundly some liberals (but fortunately not Beinart and hopefully not Schraub) misconstrue what it means to be "hawkish.""