Kerry Adrift

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35283-2004Apr22.html



Kerry Adrift

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, April 23, 2004; Page A23

"If I'm president," John Kerry said, "I will not only personally go to the U.N., I will go to other capitals." For Kerry, showing up at Kofi Annan's doorstep and sweeping through allied capitals is no rhetorical flourish, no strategic sideshow. It is the essence of his Iraq plan: "Within weeks of being inaugurated, I will return to the U.N. and I will literally, formally rejoin the community of nations and turn over a proud new chapter in America's relationship with the world."

This is an Iraq policy? Never has a more serious question received a more feckless answer. Going back to the U.N.: What does that mean? It cannot mean the General Assembly, which decides nothing. It must mean going back to the Security Council.

There are five permanent members. We are one. The British are already with us. So that leaves China, indifferent at best to our Middle East adventure, though generally hostile, and Russia, which has opposed the war from the very beginning. Moscow was so wedded to Saddam Hussein that it was doing everything it could to prevent an impartial Paul Volcker commission from investigating the corrupt oil-for-food program that enriched Hussein and, through kickbacks, hundreds of others in dozens of countries, including Russia.

That leaves . . . France. What does Kerry think France will do for us? Perhaps he sees himself and Teresa descending on Paris like Jack and Jackie in Camelot days. Does he really believe that if he grovels before Jacques Chirac in well-accented French, France will join us in a war that it has opposed from the beginning, that is now going badly, and that has moved Iraq out of the French sphere of influence and into the American?

The idea is so absurd that when Tim Russert interviewed Kerry and quoted Democratic foreign policy adviser Ivo Daalder as saying that handing political and military responsibility to the United Nations and other countries is not realistic, Kerry simply dodged the question. There was nothing to say.

...is one I take very seriously. NOT!!!!!!!!!!!1

saw his name and didn't read the article.

Which advertisement are you voting for this year?

edit: rhetorical question, of course.

Far from it. I believe that our allies would cooperate with Kerry much better than they ever did with Bush. From what I understand, our European friends have a lot of respect for Kerry. And Europe is where the money and power is -- along with Japan, Russia. Believe, Kerry would do much better. And we would see our allies cooperate as never before.

I'm amazed old Dr. Chuck managed to avoid diagnosing Sen. Kerry for once.

what do you expect? He put the "Neo" in "Con".

OK, so your for *? Smells a little here.

huh?

And I mean good ol' Chuck

makes a foolish column extra-foolish.

Thanks. and I think "foolish" only comes in at one level. It can't be intensified. It's like death.

:puke:

SEN. KERRY: Tim, that is the dilemma. That is exactly the quandary that President Bush and this administration have put the United States of America in. And the tragedy is that there were three great opportunities for this administration to make it otherwise. Opportunity number one was when we voted and when the president broke his promise to build a legitimate coalition by being patient with the U.N. inspection process. Opportunity number two was when the statue fell in Baghdad and Kofi Annan invited the United States to come to the table and offered help and we rejected it. And opportunity number three was when this president went to the U.N. last fall and once again did not invite people, didn't even acknowledge the kind of difficulties we were in that might have elicited some sympathy from other people.
MEET THE PRESS TRANSCRIPT, APRIL 18,2004

Doesn't sound like he dodged the question to me..

He fucking lied. ..."Nothing to say". He fucking lied.

Kerry should go before the UN and lay out the role the BFEE played in the Middle East for the past 24 years. BCCI. The bin Laden family. The House of Saud. Support for Saddam Hussein. The tacit approval of Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.

Then he should apologize for this;



That would be a good start.

thats my other dog imitation!

but this man is despicable.

One thing Rethuglicans are really good at is

PROJECTING THE UGLY TRUTHS ABOUT THEMSELVES ONTO DEMOCRATS!

You can just about count on it.

I thought all good psychiatrists knew about PROJECTION.

Physician, heal thyself!

and THEN tell me that you think he's "adrift."

:headbang:
rocknation

works, imho.

Wow, *and* it appears that Krauthammer lied. (see post #10)