TNR's Noam Scheiber welcomes John Kerry to the 2004 presidential field with a withering analysis of the senator's recent foreign policy pronouncements.

He [Kerry] doesn't offer a positive vision of America's role in the world so much as a collection of cloying, mostly procedural, criticisms of the Bush administration. For example, when Tim Russert [on Sunday's Meet the Press] asked whether he would favor unilateral action if Saddam doesn't accurately account for his weapons arsenal, Kerry simply complained that a unilateral war would impose huge financial costs -- not to mention "the damage that could be caused to our relationship all across the globe with countries that we need." True enough. But presumably there are some situations in which the benefits of unilateral action would outweigh the costs. Kerry gave no indication that he'd thought about what those might be.

More on Kerry's nascent presidential bid later.
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