[Huck]

Everybody believed in the law enforcement paradigm on 9/10. Obviously Kerry still does...

Does he? I haven't really paid any attention to him. I also question the connection of Iraq to terrorism. Seems like a nation-building, remake the map, idealistic adventure to me. A sideshow. Not sure I understand or agree with this sort of approach. Maybe by the time Novemeber rolls around, it will have been amply explained. I watched the President, but he did not convince me.

[hedgie]

Frontrunner Sen. John Kerry had this to say recently: "The War on Terror is . . . is occasionally military, and it will be . . . for a long time. . . . But it's primarily an intelligence and law-enforcement operation that requires cooperation around the world."

This sounds like a return to the old "Let them blow up an office building or embassy or two; we'll impanel a grand jury and issue subpoenas -- that'll show them" way of doing things.

[Broadside Joe]

" Seems like a nation-building, remake the map, idealistic adventure to me. A sideshow. Not sure I understand or agree with this sort of approach. Maybe by the time Novemeber rolls around, it will have been amply explained. I watched the President, but he did not convince me."

From the 2003 Sate of the Union address:

Before September the 11th, many in the world believed that Saddam Hussein could be contained. But chemical agents, lethal viruses and shadowy terrorist networks are not easily contained. Imagine those 19 hijackers with other weapons and other plans -- this time armed by Saddam Hussein. It would take one vial, one canister, one crate slipped into this country to bring a day of horror like none we have ever known. We will do everything in our power to make sure that that day never comes.