So, Bush is now preparing an ad attacking Kerry for suggesting that our goal, since we can’t eradicate terrorism, is to reduce it to the level of a “nuisance.” And Kerry’s got an ad attacking Bush for saying of the war on terror “I don’t think you can win it.” As far as I can tell, they’re saying the same thing: You can never eradicate all radicals and terrorists once and for all. Which is true. There’s got to be some irony in their engaging in precisely the same cynical attacks on an issue they clearly, and reasonably, agree on.