is at the center of the current presidential campaign. Today’s WSJ OpinionJournal – Featured Article clarifies the two directions. (hat tip: Penwil)
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The Kerry approach to national security offers a stark contrast to the Bush Administration’s approach–Detente with the NKs has a proven track record of failure. And trying to buy the Iranian’s off as Edwards proposed several weeks ago is equally nuts. Right now, the Iranians are demonstrating to the Europeans their contempt for them–In the long run, that may bring the Europeans around to support a combination of covert action and diplomacy against Iran–At least it demonstrates that the Europeans are bankrupt and have no influence–a point the Kerry campaign should consider.
As far as the NKs, the Bush administration was criticized for going it alone–when they enlist a multi-party diplomatic effort, they are criticized–If this dem proposal doesnt offer a clear distinction into ways of preemtively dealing with national security threats, I don’t know what does.
Roger
Detente? Them ther’s fightin wurds! In fact it is one of the damn dirtiest words to any self respecting person with one ounce of neo-con in him. Roger I swear no sooner had I booted up the page and saw that “word”, I closed the damn page in reflexive recoil! That is no lie so utterly visceral my reaction was. I had to open up a new browser and talk myself into reading it. Well that should be enough to know how I feel and says all for me. What say you Roger? This one I would like to hear. As for me? Kerry is officially dead to me. I am thoroughly disgusted.
What we are seeing is the effect of campaign stress on Kerry. He has failed to capture the imagination of the public with his Vietnam heroics. He has been posturing all along. What we are seeing emerge from Senator Kerry is his basic political personality, i.e., a committed socialist who supports any anti-democratic, anti-market economy state or group. Kerry has not changed views since 1971 and all his recent attempts at covering up his past have been for show and to be abandoned once he got elected. Plan A has clearly failed and now he going to what he knows. Just has he supported the Vietnamese Communists, Soviet foreign policy objectives (read nuclear freeze), Communist movements in Central America and Saddam Hussein’s seizure of Kuwait, he now supports the acquisition of nuclear weapons by old-time Communists like Kim Jong Il and new anti-western and anti-democratic regimes like Iran. He sees these regimes as a check on what he believes is the illegitimate exercise of US power.
As evidence for this he supports multilateralism when it suits him, e.g., Iraq and Iran, when it allows anti-American dictators to remain in power. He demands unilateralism in the North Korean nuclear crisis because he sees that a unilateral deal will allow the DPRK to maintain and expand its nuclear capability while at the same time undermining our support in the Far East.
Kerry seeks to limit American ability to defend both our interests and the common interest of western democracies so he can transform American into a Euro-socialist state. Unfortunately, the opponents he seeks to empower are just as committed to the destruction of Euro-socialism as they are to American democracy. Like most people on the left he cannot rise above his projections of his own values on our opponents.
What is going on? Is Mr. Kerry reliving his ìheroicî youth already, or is stuck in a time-loop and we see only his holographic projection?
As jerry says, Kerry’s foreign policy prescriptions indicate that he is stuck in the 1971 world. His anti free-trade, pro high-taxes rhetoric is also taken straight from those happy times. All that is missing is advocating price controls and flashing peace signs.
“Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, also repeated that his investigation has not definitely established whether Iran is trying to make nuclear weapons as Washington asserts. ”
IAEA Won’t Guarantee Iran Probe Deadline
Can’t wait for the day when Iran announces, either openly or by making the appropriate threats, that the mullahs have nuclear weapons. With a Kerry administration that day is assured and even with the Bush Doctrine in place I’m hedging my bets.
Kerry = Carter with a yankee accent.
Enough said.
And that is what a significant number of Americans want. It might seem nuts to you guys but a lot of people look at Jimmy’s Nobel Peace prize and swoon.
Now there, they say, is a good American.He knows his place.