KERRY'S COALITION QUAGMIRE (LIBERAL WASHINGTON DISPATCH SLAPS JOHN KERRY!)
A question that has been asked implicitly of John Kerry's possible Presidency (and which some commentator should have the nerve and good journalistic sense to ask directly to the candidate), is this: "Mr. Kerry, if you are elected President of the United States, what are you going to say when you're face-to-face with Italy's Sylio Berlusconi, Britain's Tony Blair, Poland's Aleksander Krasniewski, Australia's John Howard, and about 40 other heads of state of the members of the current U.S. coalition of nations supporting the military action in Iraq?"
Perhaps your thinking is that you'll just ignore them and court favor with America's "real" allies, France, Germany, and Russia. Because, let's face it, while you have asserted on several occasions you'd build a "real" coalition, the fact is that there are serious questions as to how well you could represent American diplomatic interests — let's forego for the moment any discussion of our security interests — given your ill-considered, impertinent, even downright insulting remarks about nations that actually do recognize the value of countering states that perpetrate terrorism and harbor terrorists in the only way that has proven even remotely effective; that is, through the use of force.
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