Posted on 09/09/2004 6:06:40 AM PDT by No Surrender Monkey
America faces two overriding national security challenges: win the death-struggle between freedom and radical fundamentalism and keep the world's most dangerous weapons away from its most dangerous people. To prevail, we need a new approach -- and a new president.
After 9/11, I believed -- and still do -- that if we exercised the full measure of our power, including our ideas and ideals, we could have united this nation and other nations in common cause. Ultimately, history will judge this administration harshly not for the mistakes it made, but for the opportunities it squandered. Had they been asked, Americans were ready to join a new program of national service, and to spread the cost and hardship of the war on terror beyond our soldiers and their families. Had they been treated with respect, old allies and new friends were ready to join us in a new compact for freedom and security.
* * * Today, after a necessary war in Afghanistan and an optional war in Iraq, Americans are rightly confident in the example of our military power. But we have forgotten the power of our example. And for all of America's great might, we are more alone in the world than at any time in recent history. As a result, we are less secure than we could or should be.
A Democratic foreign policy would seek to recapture the totality of our strength and restore our nation to the respect it once enjoyed by building effective alliances and international organizations; forging a prevention strategy to defuse threats to security long before they are on the verge of exploding; reforming failed or antidemocratic states that are sources of instability, radicalism and terror; and retaining the right to act pre-emptively in the face of imminent danger.
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Biden is a horses ass.
Biden plagarized this from Bush.
Obviously Biden is not aware of the corruption of the German, French, Chinese, and Russian governments. He needs to read "Treachery" by Bill Gertz.
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Not only is Biden a horse's ass, I think he was drunk when he wrote this piece of crap. It demonstrates clearly how out-of-touch and misguided the "modern" democrat party has become. Clowns like Biden seem to still believe that we can "reform" muslims to our way of thinking - if not, just convince them to leave us alone. He obviously has forgotten about 9/11/2001, and all the attacks that came before, including many during the tenure of the previous occupant of the Oval Office. He has forgotten about the "fatwa" issued by bin laden in 1998, ordering muslims to kill any and all Americans anywhere in the world they could do so. This can be "reformed"? Biden, get your baldhead out of your ass, wake up to reality,and STFU.
Once again, the Democrats insult our Coalition allies.
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