Le Evidence - nuance it how you will
..."the interviewer asked Kerry "what it would take for Americans to feel safe again."
''We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance,'' the article states as the Massachusetts senator's reply.
''As a former law enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life.''
Nuance? This shows Kerry's utter lack of nuance. It requires mind-numingly dull telepone thick psychological and sociological treatises to explain exactly what is harmful about prostitution or gambling. Terrorists kill people, innocent children, dead and that is their sole purpose. A community can function just fine with an illicit gambling parlor or a massage parlor, behind a locked door with a little window so that those who never now what goes on has no idea what goes on. In fact, one could argue that communities have a hard time functioning without such outlets. While gambling and prostituion provide a relief valve for an otherwise oppressive society, terrorism serves no societal function whatsoever. None of us can live with a single terrorist in our midst - not one. You can argue the other side to gambling and prostitution. In fact, many communities have made the former legal and some of lagalized the latter. It would take a really wacked out liberal to legalize terrorism.