PJ O'Rourke is always worth reading. This essay speaks of the US foreign policy. I loved the following passage:
Massachusetts's thinner, more sober senator, John Kerry, said that he voted for threatening to use force on Saddam Hussein, but that actually using force was wrong. This is what's known, in the language of diplomacy, as bullshit.The essay can be distilled to the idea which any US kid can relate, "Oh yeah - you and what army?"
The US is a force for good. What we determine to do - we do. The question becomes - what is our resolve? If we weaken our resolve (hello MoveOn.org and John "phoniest thing" Kerry) then we weaken our chance of success. If we strengthen our resolve - then nothing on Earth can stop us (and I do mean that literally).
To be fair - I also think that O'Rourke was unduly harsh on Lieberman and Gephardt. It would be difficult to find major disagreements between what their ideas are on the war on terror and what President Bush represents.
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