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Posted on 08/09/2004 6:05:56 PM PDT by RWR8189
MEMORANDUM TO: OPINION LEADERS
FROM: GARY SCHMITT
SUBJECT: Kerry: "Get our troops home"
The more Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry talks about how he would wage the war on terror, the more he appears to be planning a retreat from an offensive to a defensive strategy. Last Friday, Kerry told a Kansas City audience that: "I know I can run a more effective, smarter, more productive war on terror…. I will do it by bringing to our side the allies that we used to have which should have been with us in the first place. I'll take the target off American troops…and we're going to get our troops home where they belong."
Earlier in the week, Kerry boasted that he would fight a "more sensitive" war on terror. Now he talks about bringing the troops home, "where they belong." Does Sen. Kerry really think that the war on terror can be fought from the continental United States? Is he opposed to a forward strategy of fighting terrorists wherever they operate? If so, then Kerry seems to want to return to the approach employed in the 1990s, when Al Qaeda was allowed to turn Afghanistan into a base of operations. Kerry apparently favors a defensive approach to the war on terror rather than the offensive approach the Bush administration has chosen.
Moreover, Kerry continues, in Nixonian fashion, to promise that he has a way out of the struggle that takes the burden off the United States and passes it on to France and Germany and other reluctant nations. On the one hand, that is hardly a revolutionary idea. Germany and France are already helping in Afghanistan, one critical front in the war on terror. But as for Iraq, another front in the war on terror, Kerry will not succeed in convincing those allies to send troops.
The bottom line is that Kerry sounds more like McGovern every day. The call to bring the troops home "where they belong" is straight out of the Democratic Left's playbook of the 1970s.
This is exactly why Kerry is bad for the peace. He would bring the troops home before the job is done and then truly this will turn into another vietnam.
The real question is: Do the American people want the war to be fought ON the continental United States?
If Kerry said it, than it must be true!
What an a-hole he truly is!
As Mike Savage would say, time for a seeeeennnnnnnssssiiitiiivvvee war on terror. Must show the terrorists they have nothing to fear from us.
Kerry <> Edwards
Rapid American Withdrawal
I'm starting to listen to Savage again. I couldn't stand Savage the agitator, from a while back. And who knows how I'll feel in a couple of weeks. But you don't have to agree with everything a guy says. It's only if you mostly disagree - as with someone like O'Reilly - that you might get bored. Savage does like to stir it up, though. And I'm not convinced he really does his homework. I think Rush tries to do that, much more so.
Sure, but I did "Surrender America" as a play on "A Stronger America".
Other than the colors of the flag and what the slogan actually says, it looks exactly like the Kerry campaign logo. :-)
CARTER IS BACK!
Kerry's plan to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory....
I think Kerry Xerox Carter's old energy plan yesterday....copy the guy who gave us gas shortages and long lines of people fighting to get gas.
If Savage does "do his homework" it may be because he does not need to do that much, his instincts regarding the left being squarely on the mark. He is every bit as much the egomaniac as Rush and O'Reilly, is jealous of their success, and often is petty (he may not even deny that).He also is very knowlegeable, humorous, and a genuine patriot and nationalist (that dirty word). His nostalgic reminicences are diverting, as are his philosophical moments.In short, a complex individual but, withal, very entertaining.
corection: If Savage does not...
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