The Bushies are going to fight back -- for starters, they're going to try to hang the phrase "global test" around Kerry's neck. AFP reports:

"Senator Kerry, last night, said that America has to pass some sort of global test before we can use American troops to defend ourselves. He wants our national security decisions subject to the approval of a foreign government.

"Listen, I'll continue to work with our allies and the international community, but I will never submit America's national security to an international test," Bush told the cheering crowd.

They're already trying to work this at Free Republic (here and here).

AFP presents the quote in context:

"No president, though all of American history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary to protect the United States of America," said the Democratic senator from Massachusetts.

"But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons."

But if the Bush campaign starts getting away with quoting this out of context and it's unchallenged, that's a problem for Kerry.