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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: JBTFD who wrote (18123)10/1/2004 10:27:15 AM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
"Last resort", to Kerry, is just an excuse to keep talking in order to avoid taking action. It's the Franco/UN disease (except for the corruption part, perhaps). It is very easy to say "let's just talk to them one more time and see if we can work this out", but for Kerry there is no "last", so never any need for the "resort" part. And the enemy knows that. Saddam was counting on Bush behaving the same way. He thought Bush and America didn't have the will to actually resort, at last, to force.

For Bush, war WAS the last resort. The difference with him is that he's willing to say "OK, enough is enough - we're done talking" and take action.

I don't believe Kerry is willing to do that, or if he ever actually did order military action, it'd be some showy but ineffective fist-shaking act like lobbing a couple missiles and calling it victory, or some Somalia-like situation where we have no clear objective and bail at the first setback.
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