Senator Do-Nothing
Posted on 08/03/2004 5:36:21 AM PDT by OESY
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The differences between what Mr. Kerry espouses and what the Bush administration already is doing are not easy to discern. He promised a major anti-proliferation effort, but Mr. Bush already has enlisted dozens of allies to help intercept shipments of nuclear materials or equipment that might be used for bomb-making. The Pakistani nuclear supermarket has been shut down.
The senator promised 40,000 more troops so the military won't be stretched so thin, but that was one of the least credible of his lines ... when you look at his past antimilitary voting record. He promises to win more cooperation from our "allies," presumably meaning France, since the others are behaving rather well. But even though socialist France might warm up to a Democrat who learned French in a Swiss boarding school, it will not be easy to break a French tradition of noncooperation stretching back to Charles de Gaulle. Then there is the French habit of making business deals with rogues like Saddam Hussein.
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In response to 9/11, George W. Bush also has acted boldly, also inviting criticism from the timid, by making war on two supporters of Islamic terrorism, Mullah Omar in Kabul and Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. He thus established two strategic Western beachheads in the crescent of Muslim violence that stretches from the Mediterranean to the western border of China. In the second stage of these twin wars, the difficult task is to establish institutions that can withstand subversion by absolutists like Osama bin Laden and the mullahs of Iran.
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But after his brief service and his return to the U.S. he set about to undermine containment by campaigning against the war. He thus played a role in the home-front breakdown that was a major factor in bringing about the U.S. defeat.
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Ping
Sure it is. Just remember how he always prefers to dress, during his "off" hours:
How fitting that he would wear purple - the color of hubris. I'm sure the gods are taking notice. Teresa may want to note what happened to Clytemnestra.
If I only had a brain!
Kerry! The Frenchurian candidate.
Kerry is easy to find, just look to the left.
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