Hating Their Country?

One of the most vile attacks made in the months of debate leading up to the Iraqi war is that those who opposed it were unpatriotic or hated America.

Now Robert Novak finds that he needs to defend himself against this hateful charge, made in the supposedly mainstream National Review by David "Axis of Evil" Frum. Novak writes:

We are accused of advocating ''a fearful policy of ignoring threats and appeasing enemies.'' Concluding, he writes of us: ''[T]hey are thinking about defeat, and wishing for it, and they will take pleasure if it should happen. They began by hating the neo-conservatives. They came to hate their party and this president. They have finished by hating their country.''

Dissent is not tolerated. Even among conservatives.