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Politics : Discuss the candidates honestly. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (3635)	8/6/2004 4:58:57 PM
From: miraje	Respond to of 4965

It's nice to have a local paper with a feisty (and humorous) editorial staff. Tasty stuff to consume with ones morning coffee... an excerpt from todays R-J lead editorial... reviewjournal.com Friday, August 06, 2004 Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal EDITORIAL: What Sen. Kerry believes Does his 'secret plan' for Iraq involve ... the Belgians? ...Like so much of modern presidential politics -- but particularly the brand adopted out of necessity by the furthest-left Democrats, whose specific plans don't tend to poll well -- the game here seems to be a good bit of winking and nudging to Mr. Kerry's followers on the isolationist left, without saying anything specific enough to be used against him by the right. Mr. Kerry "is pinning blame" for the problems in Iraq "on President Bush and his shaky relationships with allies who have refused to support U.S. troops with soldiers of their own," The AP reports. "The four-term Massachusetts senator suggests he has back-channel assurances that foreign leaders would do more if he were president." Ah, once they see a President Kerry in office, the job of establishing a pluralistic, non-sectarian Republic in Iraq -- a bulwark against more fundamentalist terrorism of the type so dramatically displayed on 9-11 -- will be quickly accomplished by the timely arrival of Sen. Kerry's pals, the sharply honed combat brigades of France, Belgium and Andorra? There seems little doubt the decadent European powers, who successfully appealed to America to save their bacon after embroiling themselves in two massively destructive wars in the past century, would rather have an American president who defers to their "wisdom and experience" -- donning a beret and joshing with them over the brie and Chablis -- than the president they currently revile as a "cowboy" because he insists on taking dramatic actions based on what he sees as America's own best interests ... rather than theirs. But the question here is not whether the hand-waving, excuse-making Europeans are really going to spit out their Gauloises, set their berets at a jaunty angle, roll up the sleeves of their striped shirts, wade in and crush Osama bin Laden for us -- because they're not. The real question is whether we can take seriously a presidential candidate who -- based on third-hand rumors reported back by his fellow travelers -- appears to actually believe they will.