Posted on 08/04/2004 10:05:00 AM PDT by quidnunc
At last week's Democratic National Convention, the Democratic leadership outlined its vision for American foreign policy and the war on terrorism. Despite the frequent references to alliance building, the common theme running through the most prominent Democratic speeches revealed a grand strategy based on retreating to Fortress America. The Democrats' goal is to make the United States into an international version of a gated community.
On the first night, Hillary Rodham Clinton offered the American people a security strategy that contained no call to deal with foreign threats at their source. Instead, she offered a strategy based on the idea of America as a community under siege.
"We need to fully equip and train our firefighters, police officers and emergency medical technicians — our first responders in the event of a terrorist attack.
"We need to secure our borders and our ports, as well as our chemical and nuclear plants. We need to reorganize our federal government to meet the new threats of these times. We need to make sure that homeland security is properly funded and that resources go to areas at greatest risk. We need to take care of our men and women in uniform who risked their lives for our country. These brave Americans deserve better. We need to increase our troop strength, raise their pay, and provide veterans, the National Guard, and Reserve with the benefits they're entitled to."
She asked the people of the United States to believe that they can wall the problem of terrorism out, and repair damage from occasional breeches after the breeches occur. Like the decision to establish a gated community, this assumes that the problems in the shabby neighborhoods beyond the gates — the neighborhoods where the most serious problems originate — are not worthy of attention or resources.
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the lemmings morphing into "Wilsonian" democRats?
some words coming from the appeasionist party that gave our state secrets away in the 90s and made us all the more vulnerable to our enemies.
I don't see that happening anytime soon. When the border patrol conducted inland sweeps recently, the Hispanic caucus of the Congress raised holy he!! with the administration. The sweeps were stopped.
We need to reorganize our federal government to meet the new threats of these times...
Reorganize the bureaucrats. Uh huh. That'll help
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No surprise... Pat Buchanan (ew!) anticipated this by over a year, when he wrote that the extreme left and extreme right are natural allies. :')
Even "Fortress America" would be considered "too reactionary" by Kerry & Co. You can bet that if the vermin win in Nov, NMD will get stopped, and our ongoing draw down of strategic arms will accelerate. It is not "Fortress America" they want, it is "Cowering in the Corner America" they crave!
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