A crucial distinction

I'm not a big fan of Bill O'Reilly, but he just made a great point.

It is not disloyal, he observed,to dissent from the President's Iraq policy, as he enunciated it last night- or for that matter, to disapprove of the war as such.

But it is disloyal for to root for that policy, or American arms, to fail... and a great many people, both inside and outside the Democratic Party and the media, are in fact rooting for it to fail.

This is an important point. He or she who disagrees with the President's policy, or does not think that it will work, is perfectly entitled to his or her opinion. But on the other hand, he or she who roots for the President's policy to fail is disloyal to the United States.