That John Kerry, the Democratic Party’s most recent Presidential nominee, posts at nuthouse site Daily Kos is a good indicator of where his party’s ideological center lies. Can you imagine any Republican leader writing for the remnants of the John Birch Society?
And revealing of Senator Kerry’s personal seriousness is what he posts about: another trudge back to the mountains of Afghanistan to complain that President Bush was proven incompetent when American forces didn’t kill or capture Osama bin-Laden in December 2001. That is as if Adlai Stevenson had made General Eisenhower’s failure to foresee the Ardennes Offensive the centerpiece of his campaign.
Certainly the world would be a better place if Osama had gotten his 72 white grapes (vide this review for an expert look at the virgins vs. grapes question) four years ago, but he was not the world’s only terrorist, and his removal would not have demolished Islamofascism with one blow. Even if his escape from Tora Bora stemmed from avoidable mistakes by the U.S. military, and even if those mistakes can reasonably be traced to the White House, does that blunder outweigh the overall brilliance of the Afghan campaign, which overthrew the Taliban regime in a matter of days despite the handicap of long supply lines through dubiously friendly territory and reliance on dubiously competent local allies? Few operations in military history have made gigantic difficulties look so trivial. Of course, that very success is what allows Senator Kerry to obsess over the outcome of a single skirmish. Further evidence that the country made the right choice in November 2004.
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