Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (39379)	8/1/2004 3:46:42 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Yes indeed, Kerry is not going to have a cakewalk. I am sure he does not expect tto have one. But surely, he is best positioned to make a fresh start and make effective progress on "the war against terrorism". By the way when did you know that Clinton and Sandy Berger thwarted the millenium attack in LA. I didn't know about that since the terror level alert was non existent. YOu think this terror level alert is a ploy of the Bush Administration too strike fear in us, their own people? Anyway here goes: <font size=3> contd from.... iht.com But Kerry also said things that make clear that Europe and America will not suddenly see eye to eye under a Kerry administration. He vowed not to hesitate to use force when required. He said he would "never give any nation or any institution a veto over our national security." He pledged to "build a stronger American military." He also made clear that he is ready to reach out to NATO, but expects help in return. "We need a president who has the credibility to bring our allies to our side and share the burden, reduce the cost to American taxpayers, and reduce the risk to American soldiers," Kerry said. In effect, he rammed home arguments made the night before by his running mate, John Edwards, who declared, "With a new president who strengthens and leads our alliances, we can get NATO to help secure Iraq." This promise of NATO support in Iraq may be hard to fulfill. Domestic opposition to the Iraq war in France and Germany, the two NATO countries whose armies could make a big difference, is vehement. Committing troops to Iraq, even with a Kerry administration, may be politically impossible for President Jacques Chirac or Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, as Karl Kaiser, a German foreign policy analyst, noted. <font color=red>"If there is a new United States administration that makes a visible effort to reconstruct the European-American relationship, Europeans will go out of their way to do what they can," Kaiser said. <font color=black>"But in Germany and France, sending troops is very hard to do for domestic reasons and is unlikely." Kaiser suggested that assistance to a Kerry administration on Iraq would be more likely to come in the form of development aid or debt forgiveness or training programs for border police officers. <font color=red>What seems clear is that hostility toward Bush in both France and Germany is such that their governments would try to afford a Kerry administration a honeymoon, at the very least, to signal their hope of better relations. <font color=black>Kerry said one other thing that will reassure Asians and Europeans troubled by Bush's religious convictions and the certainty they appear to give the incumbent that his actions are right because backed by God. "I don't want to claim that God is on our side," Kerry declared. "As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side." The cheers for that phrase were deafening. The Democrats clearly believe that they have found a winner in a gangling, humble, sad-eyed soldier who did his duty, prays discreetly and rocks to Springsteen.