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Home Front: Politix
Steyn: No time for Kerry's Europhile delusions
Maybe I'm getting old. I've been covering politics for 53 years, and that's just since John Kerry's convention speech. I'm sick of this election, even before the Democratic Party's chad-diviners have managed to extend it to mid-December. These are serious times and the senator is not a serious man. And so we have a campaign that has a sharper position on Mary Cheney's lesbianism and the deficiencies of Laura Bush's curriculum vitae than on the central question of the age.

There are legitimate differences of opinion about the war, but they don't include Kerry's silly debater's points. On the one hand, the Tora borer drones that Bush "outsourced" the search for Osama bin Laden to the Afghans, though at the time he supported it ("It is the best way to protect our troops," he said in December 2001. "I think we have been doing this pretty effectively."). But, on the other, he claims he's going to outsource Iraq to the French and the Germans, though neither of them wants anything to do with it.

As for this Bush-failed-to-get-bin-Laden business, 2-1/2 years ago I declared that Osama was dead and he's never written to complain. There's no more evidence for his present existence than there is for the Loch Ness monster, which at least does us the courtesy of showing up as a indistinct gray blur on a photograph every now and again. Osama is lying low because he's in no condition to get up. But, even if he weren't, that's a frivolous reductive way of looking at this war. He's not a general or head of state; he can't sign an instrument of surrender, and make all the unpleasantness go away. The enemy is an ideology that appeals to various loose groupings from the Balkans to Indonesia, as well as to entrepreneurial free-lancers like the shooter who killed two people at LAX on July 4, 2002. If Kerry's oft-repeated "outsourcing Osama" crack is genuinely felt, it shows he doesn't get this war. And, if it's just cheapo point scoring, it's pathetic.
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Posted by: Frank G || 10/24/2004 9:31:24 AM || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Steyn is right on the money, again. John Edward's wife is a real loser just as Tharassa is a loser (maybe a drunk or doper). A Kerry presidency will bring open us up to our military and political leaders falling under the International Court, and all the other internationalist ambitions.
Posted by: Capt America || 10/24/2004 12:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Should be required reading for the LLL. Kerry has a myoptic view of the WOT and he remains focused on one person. At most we have seen grainy images of Osama on some mountain or inside a cave. Doesn't sound look to me like he is in the position to influence or lead anyone.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 10/24/2004 17:31 Comments || Top||

#3  We have the same issue with people dying in hospital from infections they contract whilst there. It's called MRSA, and is touted as a 'superbug'. But it's really down to unhygienic hospital wards.

Steyn certainly knows where to thrust the stilleto doesn't he? heh!
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 10/24/2004 18:00 Comments || Top||



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