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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (62006)	10/21/2004 12:30:45 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 89467

Illuminating quote William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, yesterday pounced on a Washington Post news story that served up an illuminating quote from John Kerry. "Kerry's belief in working with allies runs so deep that he has maintained that the loss of American life can be better justified if it occurs in the course of a mission with international support," the front-page article by Helen Dewar and Thomas E. Ricks said. "In 1994, discussing the possibility of U.S. troops being killed in Bosnia, he said, 'If you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no.' " Mr. Kristol, writing at www.weeklystandard.com, commented: "When the Bush campaign talks about John Kerry's wanting a 'permission slip' from the U.N., many commentators dismiss it as rhetorical excess. But Kerry really does believe that the United Nations is a fundamental, legitimizing body for the use of U.S. force. One hears this deference to the U.N. all the time in European capitals, but it is rare to hear it even among mainstream American liberals. In this respect, as in others, Kerry really is a throwback. He still shares the McGovernite distrust of U.S. force and suspicion of the judgments that are arrived at by the American body politic. "John Kerry is not a Clinton-Lieberman Democrat. His near obsession with gaining the approval of the U.N., and for that matter of France and Germany, for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy would make him the riskiest commander in chief of any presidential candidate since George McGovern — and surely makes Kerry unsuitable to govern in a post-9/11 world."