Excuse me, but unless we are attacked or directly threatened by another nation, or are supporting a nation in similar circumstances then we don't have the authority to attack another nation. It is role of the UN to intervene in the case of tribal wars, genocide and tyrannical dictators. We are not the world police. We have been playing that role for upwards of 60 years and what has it gotten us? Has it stopped the rate of genocide? Of other nations inflicting their will on others? NO.
In an international community there are rules and even the biggest kid on the block needs to follow them. There is no evidence of ties between Sadam and Bin Laden. Just as there is no evidence of WMD. The international bodies involved in searching for WMDs prior to the war stated there was no evidence of them prior to us going to war. Yet cowboy Bush said yepiee kai yeah.. I am doing it my way to hell with world opinion or international law. On September 11, 2001 we were attacked by terrorists. On September 12, 2001 we had the world on our side to track them down and prevent this from happening again. Bush Jr. has destroyed this sense of international co-operation by abusing his power and initiating a war against a sovereign nation, against world opinion and international law. We have no coalition. We have a number of nations that provided the minimal support they could while extracting the highest ransom for that support that they could get. Our coalition was bought or coerced. Bush is right there are times you have to stand up and lead even if you lead in a direction that is contrary to popular opinion. Unfortunately manufacturing evidence to justify war that is more personal vendetta than anything else really doesn't come close to leading. The is a difference between being a leader and bully. Mr. Bush has misused his power and over reached the bounds of his authority. Mr. Kerry is right. We should have waited and rallied more international support. What would it have cost us to wait another six months or a year. Maybe then others would be helping to foot the cost both financially and in terms of lifes lost, or ruined. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/004/804suggy.asp WHO WOULD HAVE EXPECTED the Washington Post to inflict real damage on John Kerry's faltering presidential campaign? Yet they have. Here is the third paragraph from today's front-page article by Helen Dewar and Tom Ricks on Kerry's foreign policy record: Kerry's belief in working with allies runs so deep that he has maintained that the loss of American life can be better justified if it occurs in the course of a mission with international support. In 1994, discussing the possibility of U.S. troops being killed in Bosnia, he said, "If you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no." When the Bush campaign talks about John Kerry's wanting a "permission slip" from the U.N., many commentators dismiss it as rhetorical excess. But Kerry really does believe that the United Nations is a fundamental, legitimizing body for the use of U.S. force. One hears this deference to the U.N. all the time in European capitals, but it is rare to hear it even among mainstream American liberals. In this respect, as in others, Kerry really is a throwback. He still shares the McGovernite distrust of U.S. force and suspicion of the judgments that are arrived at by the American body politic. John Kerry is not a Clinton-Lieberman Democrat. His near obsession with gaining the approval of the U.N., and for that matter of France and Germany, for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy would make him the riskiest commander in chief of any presidential candidate since George McGovern--and surely makes Kerry unsuitable to govern in a post-9/11 world. William Kristol is editor of The Weekly Standard. _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=34 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:132016 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
