That was certainly a barnburner Zell Miller delivered at Madison Square Garden.(The Week)(Brief Article)

* That was certainly a barnburner Zell Miller delivered at Madison Square Garden. Republicans were thrilled to hear a Democrat forthrightly zinging his party on national-security issues. Most of his specific criticisms were well-aimed. John Kerry does have a weak record on defense, and the Democrats are less trustworthy on security than the Republicans. Miller has been criticized for saying that "Kerry would let Paris decide when America needs defending," since Kerry said in his own convention speech that he would "never give any nation or international institution a veto over our national security." But Miller's comment was fair. Kerry's speech made it reasonably clear that if someone attacked America, he would not check with France before responding. But in more ambiguous cases, when threats were merely gathering, the emphasis Kerry puts on the need for allies raises the possibility that he would, indeed, let Paris rule out actions to defend America. When Democrats say that Bush spurns ...