And Then What?

Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, AKA the Dim-witted Duo, along with Congressional Democrats, are promising to capture bin Laden, a neat trick if they could pull it off.
Overall, the Democratic position paper attempts to make the case that the Bush administration's "inadequate planning and incompetent policies have failed to make Americas as safe as we should be." It covers party policy positions on homeland security, the war on terror, the military, Iraq and energy security, but it contains many of the same proposals Democrats have offered over the past year. The platform also lacks specific details of how Democrats plan to capture bin Laden , the al-Qaida mastermind who has evaded U.S. forces in the more than four years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
They don't offer specifics on how to capture bin Laden. Why am I not shocked and amazed? Might it be because I can't get Kerry's 'I've got a plan' mantra out of my head? Promising bin Laden's capture sounds like a fine plan but why should we have any confidence in it? Furthermore, would troop re-deployments be required? If so, where would the troops come from? Would that affect our ability to finish the war in Iraq?
"The Democrats are going to take back the security issue," said Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
How you gonna do that, Chuckie? By replaying Reid's "We just killed the Patriot Act" speech on TV each week? Or by replaying Howard Dean's "We can't win in Iraq" speech? Or would you replay John Murtha's "immediate redeployment" speech? Or Murtha's "Our boys are living hand to mouth" speech? That's quite a list of golden oldies to choose from, isn't it Chuckie?

I'm just not certain it's a persuasive list of golden oldies, at least it isn't positive persuasion for Democrats.
"We're uniting behind a national security agenda that is tough and smart and will provide the real security George Bush has promised but failed to deliver," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, (D-NV), said in remarks prepared for delivery Wednesday. His counterpart in the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, (D-CA), said the Democrats are offering a new direction, "one that is strong and smart, which understands the challenges America faces in a post 9/11 world, and one that demonstrates that Democrats are the party of real national security."
If we were playing a word association game, strong and smart are the least likely words I'd use to describe Democrats' foreign policy. If you remember the Boston convention, then you'll remember that this is just a reprise of that convention's theme. It's all empty rhetoric and no meat to the plans. That's what you should expect from this bunch, though.

One last thing: If they capture bin Laden, then what's the next step in winning the GWOT?

Cross-posted at California Conservative

Posted Wednesday, March 29, 2006 4:07 AM

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