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To: LindyBill who wrote (76361)	10/10/2004 11:10:51 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793717

When I asked Kerry what it would take for Americans to feel safe again, he displayed a much less apocalyptic worldview. "We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance," Kerry said. "As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life." What Kerry is saying here is, "lets get back to a time when the terrorists were less of a bother, when they'd annoy us occasionally by bombing one of our ships, or an embassy, or a military barracks, where the loss of American live is 20, 30, 40, or 50 people. We can live with that. Let's go back to those days." What he fails to recognize, is those days are over. Those days were the days that emboldened the terrorists to think about bigger and more grandiose schemes to take out the infidel. The won't be satisfied with 50 American deaths now, they want a nuclear or chemical strike on our soil that will kill tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of Americans. I had a telephone conversation today with my liberal mother. She said, "one of these days we should talk about why you're supporting Bush." I told her, "I'm supporting Bush because he is the one to continue the fight on terrorism, to take it to the terrorists on their own ground, not ours." Her response? She thinks Kerry will do the same. I'm saddened with the knowledge that my own mother is so terribly out of touch with what is going on in the world. Aside: She does not have Cable TV and gets most of her news from NPR, CBC and the Ann Arbor News.