Is ‘Missile Gap’ key to 2004?

The Democrats will have argue, it seems to me, that they have a better — in its own way tougher, or at least more realistic — approach to winning the global war on terror. It can’t be based on talk, but on the promise of action. They’ll try to argue that they understand a diverse world better than the well-meaning but simplistic sheriff; that they can deploy our friends and discern our enemies better; that they can tap new technology and fresh, savvy thinking in academia (which tends to loathe the Bush Crowd). In other words, that they would be a new generation of the best and the brightest.

Newsweek pitches strategy at 2004 Democrats while promoting Kerry. It is a decent strategy.