Here we have a triptych outlining the moral parameters of the current war against terrorism. It concerns the home-front, whether in the U.S. or abroad. How is the war doing outside the battlefield? Let's take a look at the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

The good requires no real explanation. Good usually speaks for itself. Students at the elite and lefty-ridden Columbia University are beginning to realize that hatred of one's country, as expressed by the Edward Said wannbe assistant professor Nicholas de Genova, is not good for higher learning. Love of one's country is not simply a cultural construct inviting a relative perspective. It is actually a moral good, founded in values worth killing and dying for. We applaud the students of Columbia, though so few in number, who have escaped the clutches of their hate-spewing professors, and made a stand of their own.

After all, didn't the '60s generation teach youth to rebel against established authority? On and upward.

Now for some bad. Our German "ally," Gerhard Schroeder, is having a change of heart. He now thinks the war should end swiftly, presumably with Saddam's defeat. But as with M. de Villepin, it's hard to say which side he's on. One thing's for certain. He wants the U.N. to be involved in the reconstruction. Attempting to ride Bush's coattails, Schroeder bravely declares, [a]fter the dictatorship is overcome we want the Iraqi people to realize their hopes for peace, freedom and self-determination . . . . Though he still opposes the war, it's hard to see how his newfound concern for the Iraqi people can be achieved without a military victory.

Last but certainly least, comes the ugly. You would think Senator Kerry learned that bashing Bush is not good PR for the Dems. Unless you're banking on a Vietnam quagmire.

Coughing up the tired mantra of regime change in the United States, Senator Kerry calls for regime change in the United States. "What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but we need a regime change in the United States,'' Kerry said in a speech at the Peterborough Town Library.

It's not at all reassuring that many anti-war types are drawing a moral equivalence between the regime in Iraq and the administration in Washington. Just who is the enemy? Looks like Kerry, and the Democrat party, are increasingly their own worst one.