After some doubts coming from the first debate I'm now convinced that Bush will be a better choice than Kerry. On Korea, Bush favors the promising multilateral talks (which include, most importantly, China and S. Korea) whereas Kerry wants to return the bilateral talks that enabled Kim Jong Il to advance his program in the 1st place. Bush's national security policy is also more developed than Kerry's. Kerry promises the world would greet his election with new troop commitments in Iraq; common sense and the European media both deny this. Bush is in fact not stupid but actually sets the global agenda. He has a vision of spreading democracy, health and wealth across the world -begining with Iraq, the fight against Aids and free trade. Kerry denies the necessity of addressing the causes of terrorism and is willing only to take measures here at home. Adding more firefighters and police officers will please the unions, yes. But the truth is, Mr. Kerry, that a firehouse in Baghdad will do more good than one in Scranton. Kerry has fine thumbs (as evidenced by his bizarre trademark hand gesture) but sticking them in the dyke will do little good. We can not afford to elect a leader who refuses to address the causes of terror. The media, successful as they've been in demonizing Cheney (who was smeared because he refused to talk to the media and they cynically intuited that much of post-Enron, post-Newsom America would be wary of an executive and lesbian's father) has only succeeded in calling Bush "stupid." As we all know, Texas has nothing to do with stupidity. The president's world view, simply as he expresses it, is consistent with the mainstream of 20th century foreign policy and a prudent response to terror. John Kerry's is reckless in its naivety. Though none of us agree with Bush on all things I think we can all agree with him on the one thing that is paramount: His is the most proactive, developed and promising vision for making the world free from terror.

posted by Matthew Schmitz   [4:02 PM]

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