A radical turn of events: "Much has changed since the United Nations was founded more than 50 years ago. The original mission of the NATO died with the Soviet Union. The United States and its European allies need to work out a new division of labor in facing terrorist threats and humanitarian disasters. Democrats, Lake argues, 'need to be thinking large, and they're not.'

Bush has thrown down a radical challenge. His opponents -- Democrats and a growing group of increasingly squeamish Republicans -- should be bold enough to answer it."

But, but, but, but...they haven't had a new idea in fifty years. What makes you think they will have one now?