Kinda agree, kinda disagree.
Quote:Bush's cowboy, go-it-alone lack of strategy has *increased* the risk of an attack against us, not reduced it.
I think the risk is about the same. Al Qaeda, in general, is not an action committee with just a few grievences to pick. Most of their heirarchy dreams of a pan-Islamic state running from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Philippines and beyond, completely rid of Westerners, Christians, and Jews, and riddled with Sharia Law. These hate speeches have been, are, and will continue to be taught in radical Islamic schools called
madrasses, even if the US agreed to every one of their "demands". The phrase 'Al Qaeda' might as well be the Arabic term for Mein Kampf. Even though I do disagree with the military detour into Iraq, I don't think zealots were going to stop blowing up malls, airlines, and resorts if Iraq was never mentioned.
Quote:Kerry wants to close budget deficits. He has bravely suggested it is time to recind the the foolish, budget-busting tax cuts that put us into the mess we are now in. Bush has caused the largest deficits in our nation's history. Kerry wants to fix that.
I'm supportive of his narrowing the budget deficit. But I'd much prefer he keep taxes low (even if it means rolling
some of the tax cuts) and instead focus on slashing some spending*. I'm not talking about closing soup kitchens and the like. But Bush has rubber-stamped some painfully bad spending bills over the past 3.5 years that never should've seen the light of day.
[* - I'm going to be cautiously optimistic with a Kerry presidency and a GOP-controlled Congress. Gridlock could keep those bloated expenditures from sliding through the beltway like a hot knife through butter, a la 1994.]