NY Daily News Columnist Michael Goodwin has this advice for Sen. John Kerry:

These are eight magic words and they are offered with the modest suggestion that John Kerry say them from the podium tonight when he is crowned King of all Democrats: "We must kill them before they kill us."

That might be wishful thinking. It's the same John Kerry, after all, who said this about the war on terror while he was campaigning during the Democratic primaries:

But it's primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation that requires cooperation around the world -- the very thing this administration is worst at. And most importantly, the war on terror is also an engagement in the Middle East economically, socially, culturally, in a way that we haven't embraced, because otherwise we're inviting a clash of civilizations.