A Dangerous Way Of Doing Business

So John Kerry thinks that he knows better than George W. Bush when it comes to dealing with terrorists:

The Democratic Party's presidential front-runner, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., has pledged that if elected he will abandon the president's war on terror, begin a dialogue with terrorist regimes and apologize for three-and-one-half years of mistakes by the Bush administration.

In a sweeping foreign-policy address to the Council on Foreign Relations in December, Kerry called the U.S. war on terror as conceived and led by President Bush "the most arrogant, inept, reckless and ideological foreign policy in modern history."

If anything is reckless and inept it's Kerry's world view. Hasn't anyone learned that when you negotiate with these people you only encourage them to continue to use attacks like 9/11 to achieve their aims? Maybe he could take a lesson from this post over at Walloworld:

But there's another aspect to peacemakers that I think is important: peacemakers don't necessarily compromise in order to achieve that reconcilation. Jesus didn't compromise. He saw the money changers in the temple and he didn't sit down and carve out various money changing "locations." He kicked them out. Similarly, he was willing to call the religious leaders of his day a den of vipers, hardly an invitation to compromise in my mind.

The point is, there is another aspect of peace that comes from a clarity of vision and an acceptance of eternal truth. If you have that sort of peace, you want to pass it on. There is also the type of peacemaker who sees a problem and tries to resolve it, even if it means discomfort or criticism. A "peace lover" is not the same as a "peace maker;" far too often, those who are unwilling to address a problem for fear of disturbing "the peace" make nothing but trouble.

Wake up and smell the reality John.

Kudos to Gordon over at Dogsnot Diaries for bringing this to my attention.

File under The Presidential Election.

8:53:53 PM