Maggie Gallagher - GOOD NEWS/BAD NEWS (a dump on Dems/Bush wins)

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GOOD NEWS/BAD NEWS
Wed Dec 3, 8:00 PM ET Add Op/Ed - Maggie Gallagher to My Yahoo!


By Maggie Gallagher

For Dick Gephardt and the other Democratic presidential candidates, the good news is the bad news: "When you measure progress on the threats that could inflict the greatest number of casualties, it's clear this president is gambling with our safety," Gephardt charged in Iowa this week.....(but) Not a single American, meanwhile, has been killed by terrorists on U.S. soil since 9/11. Do you remember how we told each other things would never go back to normal here?
But they have, even here in New York. The threat of terrorism remains but it is a background buzz, no longer a daily reality, a paralyzing fear. <snip>


But for people like Gephardt, there is never any good news, no silver linings: "A foreign policy that drives away natural allies in the war against terrorism does our country no good, and shortchanging domestic security puts our citizens here at home at undue risk," he said, calling for a $100 billion spending spree on "homeland security."


There is no way to build a wall around America, no way to guarantee that no terrorist attack will ever again take place on American soil. But the Bush strategy combines an international attack on al-Qaida that has clearly disrupted its ability to attack America, a strong warning to sympathetic governments that give even passive aid and comfort to terrorists, and an aggressive attorney general named Ashcroft here at home, with the first hope (glimmering but not yet realized) of a decent, Islamic, democratic government in the Middle East.


Nothing is perfect. From where I sit, the news looks pretty good.

She hasn't seen, or doesn't know, anyone who lost a loved one or good friend in Iraq, does she?:mad:

She must be like "Bar"..."why would she waste her beautiful mind on things like that?" when from where she sits, things "look pretty good"?:grr:

B-)

I wonder.