Originally posted by reagan80
Kerry doesn't have a real plan to fight terrorists. I haven't heard him give us any effective ideas on stopping terrorism besides bashing Bush's efforts. His apparent plans include cozying up to the UN and giving them the "keys" to Iraq just to get more countries to support us while they impose their own little agendas in the reconstruction effort. The UN is probably more incompetent than us when it comes to "nation-building". Just look at them in Kosovo...
Iraq isn't the property of the US. The US may have freed the Iraqi people from a tyranical ruler, but they are their own people. Giving the UN the "keys" to Iraq is exactly what should be done. The effort now should be to get Iraq back into stable condition, not to exploit the hell out of them.
I'm sorry, but we can't just be on the defensive for the rest of our lives. We have to succeed ALL THE TIME with our counter-terrorism ops at home while terrorists only have to be successful ONCE. The only way to win this war is to eliminate terrorists, terrorist infrastructure, and the environments that nurture them such as Iraq and Afghanistan. By attempting to disrupt terrorist operations overseas, the terrorists and their resources have a lesser chance of reaching our shores.
Actually, if the US really wanted to stop terrorism the best bet would be to work to stabilize countries, not to try to hunt down every last terrorist. Hunting down terrorists will never stop, more are born every day. However if you have stable countries where people can establish their own lives you're a lot less prone to have terrorists.
He didn't lie to us. It was just a simple matter of our intelligence being FUBAR. No one questioned Clinton when he was "sabre-rattling" against Hussein.
Yeah he did. Bush said that it wasn't his intention from the start to oust Hussein. That was a lie, he was planning it from a few days after he got into office according to sources inside the administration.
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Dictatorship: 1 ruler
Democracy: A choice between 2 rulers?? [/sarcasm]
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I am still dumbfounded by this statement............I saw it already on the first couple of pages of this thread and I can't believe I'm seeing it again.
Dictatorship: No elections. No separation of powers. No way to legally remove(impeach) leader. No system of checks and balances to prevent leader from doing anything that violates the will of the majority of the people. No guarantees of minority(and majority?) rights.
Democracy: Who said it just had to be a choice between 2 potential leaders? There could be dozens of third-party candidates to compete against the 2 predominant parties' candidates here. One reason Gore lost was because a percentage of liberals voted for the Green Party's Ralph Nader.
Keep bashing democracy..........If you were living under a dictatorship, I'd be curious about whether you would even have the right to openly bash your form government there without fear of death or imprisonment...........Who do you want to be your dictator then?
Democracy doesn't have to be a choice among two potential leaders, and ultimately shouldn't be. It is in the US though, at least for presidential elections. Sure, there's third-party candidates, but be honest with yourself; do they have a snowball's chance in hell of being elected? No. They're just there so everyone can pat themselves on the back and say, "Look at all the choices for leaders we have!"
-Mason Gray: Less vowels, same great consonant taste.