Kerry Criticizes Bush On Mideast Policy
There's an old saying that goes
"A wise man is someone who has something to say. A fool is someone who has to say something."
Based on
this article, it's pretty easy to identify which camp John Kerry's in.
As a foreign policy realist, his 'solution' to the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict would've been to either pressure Israel into a ceasefire that would've allowed Hezbollah to restock or to send in more UN 'peacekeepers' into southern Lebanon. (By the way, the 'truth-in-advertising' label for UN peacekeepers is 'SPEEDBUMP.") That's hardly a solution.
Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 2:11 AM
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U.S. Sen. John Kerry, (D-MA), who was in town Sunday to help Gov. Jennifer Granholm campaign for her re-election bid, took time to take a jab at the Bush administration for its lack of leadership in the Israeli-Lebanon conflict. "If I was president, this wouldn't have happened," said Kerry during a noon stop at Honest John's bar and grill in Detroit's Cass Corridor. Bush has been so concentrated on the war in Iraq that other Middle East tension arose as a result, he said. "The president has been so absent on diplomacy when it comes to issues affecting the Middle East," Kerry said. "We're going to have a lot of ground to make up (in 2008) because of it."Mr. Kerry hasn't noticed but Democrats have far more ground to make up if than he thinks. If they don't stop carping about President Bush and offer an alternative, they won't even get a whiff of the White House or Congress. His claim that the Israeli-Hezbollah war wouldn't have happened had he been in the White House is utterly laughable, too. The biggest reason why he isn't in the White House is because people saw him as being too wishy-washy on national security.
As a foreign policy realist, his 'solution' to the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict would've been to either pressure Israel into a ceasefire that would've allowed Hezbollah to restock or to send in more UN 'peacekeepers' into southern Lebanon. (By the way, the 'truth-in-advertising' label for UN peacekeepers is 'SPEEDBUMP.") That's hardly a solution.
Posted Monday, July 24, 2006 2:11 AM
June 2006 Posts
No comments.