ToddG
Dedicated LVC Member
The other thing that I didn't like about Kerry was his mindset on terrorism. He viewed it as mainly a law-enforcement problem and not a real war like Bush did. I think approaching the issue from a law-enforcement standpoint is wrong, especially in light of the terror attacks starting from the US barracks bombings back in the Reagan administration. September 11, 2001 brought into sharp focus the nature of the enemy and the nature of this fight.
I think Kerry's law enforcement approach stems from the fact that he basically thinks like a diplomat and not a warrior. His father was in the US Foreign Service, and he now serves on the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Yes, I know he served in Vietnam, but if you look at his total life story from start of college to today, his military service is more of an anomoly. He was against the Vietnam war both before and after he served, and he was against the first Gulf War in 1991. Diplomats like to search for, well, diplomatic solutions to problems with dialogue and avoid conflict, and that is what you see in Kerry's behavior and approach to issues. While that approach can work in many instances, it won't work with terrorists because they don't think that way... they want to kill us. You cannot negotiate with these bastards, you simply have to kill them before they kill more Americans.
I think Kerry's law enforcement approach stems from the fact that he basically thinks like a diplomat and not a warrior. His father was in the US Foreign Service, and he now serves on the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Yes, I know he served in Vietnam, but if you look at his total life story from start of college to today, his military service is more of an anomoly. He was against the Vietnam war both before and after he served, and he was against the first Gulf War in 1991. Diplomats like to search for, well, diplomatic solutions to problems with dialogue and avoid conflict, and that is what you see in Kerry's behavior and approach to issues. While that approach can work in many instances, it won't work with terrorists because they don't think that way... they want to kill us. You cannot negotiate with these bastards, you simply have to kill them before they kill more Americans.