A KERRY WIN, WOULD BE A WIN FOR TERRORISIM
Posted on 10/10/2004 5:05:33 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom
U.S President George Bush and his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry will face off in their second election debate tomorrow night. But for Salim Mansur the first debate last week was enough. He's a columnist and a political scientist at the University of Western Ontario in London. On Commentary, he says a Kerry election win would spell victory for terror.
Real Audio link: Salim Mansur Audio
Transcript
Salim Mansur:
Once we get past style and engage in content analysis of last Thursday's presidential debate between George Bush and John Kerry, it becomes clear Americans will be voting on distinct alternatives presented by the two men.
Most Americans know where George Bush stands on the "war on terror." Whether they agree with him or not they have understood his consistent reasoning of why Iraq is a central front in this war. They have understood how regime change in Baghdad made America safer in the post-9/11 world. And they know the new Iraq in the making will be a model for a democratic alternative in the Middle East.
Americans were uncertain of John Kerry's views since there were so many contradictions. On Thursday he made clear the war in Iraq is a diversion from the war on terror and a "colossal error of judgment."
It can then be inferred Kerry will hasten American withdrawal from Iraq. Such an inference would be entirely in keeping with Kerry's political instinct, his lesson brought home from Vietnam with the question he posed for the commander in chief: "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?"
Democrats nominating Kerry convinced themselves the war in Iraq is wrong and unwinnable. Kerry now has indicated unambiguously his views on Iraq are consistent with his belief America cannot and must not engage militarily abroad unless it is part of as broad a coalition of interests that meets "the global test."
In other words, while Kerry accused Bush of out-sourcing America's war on terror in Afghanistan to Afghan warlords, he will out-source America's foreign policy to the United Nations that is up to its neck in the oil-for-food scandal in Iraq, and has shown its ineptness from Rwanda through the Balkans and Somalia to the tragedy unfolding in Darfur.
But in Iraq where America's reputation has been staked out in the fight for the defence of freedom and democracy, as it once was in the Korean peninsula and in Indo-China, a Kerry presidency will mean conceding victory to Islamists and their fundamentalist sponsors.
An American withdrawal before a new Iraq secures its future (however such a withdrawal is disguised) will plunge the area into hopelessness for another generation. The region will remain stuck in the same hopelessness as Saddam's Iraq represented. It will mean abandonning the region to decrepit dictators and monarchs who will deny their people the 21st century.
For Commentary, I'm Salim Mansur in London (Canada).
Not so rare, Mark Steyen, David Frum, David Warren, Paul Jackson are just a few Conservative Canadian Journalists who are posted on these threads. Usually articles by these men get little response compared to negative articles on Canada which are jumped on by the Canada bashers.
Success in the war on terror can take a Century:
Defeat in the War on Terror can happen in a single day:
VOTE NOVEMBER 2 TO WIN THE WAR ON TERROR, NOT SURRENDER TO THE TERRORISTS!
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Just check out what his sister was saying to the Australians, trying to derail our ally. Certainly, her actions alone state what Kerry will do if elected"
Do you know where I can see a picture of Kerry's sister? Also, I had never heard of her before this story broke. I wonder if she is a black-sheep or something?
Dr. Salim Mansur is a Muslim journalist.
On the world stage, his is one of few Muslim voices speaking against the Muslim uprising, and warning the appeasers around the world that it is exactly the wrong approach at the wrong time.
As a Canadian Muslim, he has uniquely dared to challenge his countrymen and his culture in search of the truth, and that is worth our heartfelt praise, respect, admiration and gratitude.
The Kerry family has from time immemorial undermined the safety and security of our country.
It's a Kerry tradition to hate America.
Agreed, a man of courage.
The American mainstream media are the Enemy Within America.
To conquer terrorism, we must first defeat the Voice of Treason.
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