Kerry has no policy on the state-sponsored harboring of terrorists. But these states are our enemies, too. Kerry has never understood the Bush doctrine of preemption, which says plainly that if we wait to attack it will be too late. Kerry and his advisors believe we are in a pseudo war, one that can be fought in criminal courts. In fact, America faces an irregular army that can only be defeated through military means.
Kerry also believes Saddam Hussein?s Iraq was a diversion. But we have learned from the Duelfer Report that Saddam was using the UN?s oil-for-food program to bribe officials in France, Germany, Russia, and elsewhere to finance prohibited goods and weapons that would recreate his banned weapons programs. ?Iraq would have been able to produce mustard agents in a period of months and nerve agents in less than a year or two,? according to Mort Zuckerman?s recent column in U.S. News and World Report.
Kerry has chosen to ignore all this. He also continues to skirt his so-called ?global test? stratagem that would place America?s safety and security in the hands of the UN or Europe. But this is no way to prosecute World War IV, which is really the most accurate context for the current war against Islamic fascism.
Finally, with all his pessimism, Kerry seems incapable of understanding that Bush?s vision of freedom and democracy on the march is actually working. Free elections have been held successfully in Afghanistan. In recent days, Carlos Valenzuela, the top UN electoral expert, told the Associated Press that preparations for the crucial January election in Iraq are ?on track.?
You see, George Bush has a vision and a policy. Warts and all, the execution of that policy is moving ahead successfully. When the president says that there must be no uncertainty or weakness, that there is no place for confusion and no substitute for victory, the U.S. electorate is listening carefully.