David Frum

Those hints we keep hearing from the Oval Office—could they be a warning of the most breathtakingly cynical about-face in recent political history?

For more than half a decade, Democrats blasted the Bush administration for "taking its eye off the ball in Afghanistan." This same point was made in the same words by everyone from presidential candidates down to the lowliest cable TV mid-morning "Democratic strategist."

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David Frum is editor of FrumForum.com and the author of six books, including most recently COMEBACK: Conservatism That Can Win Again. In 2001 and 2002, he served as speechwriter and special assistant to President George W. Bush. In 2007, he served as senior foreign policy adviser to the Rudy Giuliani presidential campaign.