Steyn Nails It

Steyn Nails It - As usual:

In other words, the "coalition of the willing" has effected more positive change in the last 10 months than the multilateral establishment has in the last 10 years.

If President Bush loses in November because he can't provide sufficient witnesses to prove where he was on certain weekends in 1972, he'll still have an impressive legacy: He has toppled two dictatorships, neutered a third and put the squeeze on several more. Yes, Americans are still being killed by Islamists in Iraq. But they're not being killed by Islamists in New York offices, or Washington government buildings, or U.S. Embassies and ships.

Assume for the purposes of argument the media are right — that John Kerry's four months in Vietnam are so impressive they outweigh two decades of zero accomplishment in Washington, save for a series of votes remarkable for being wrong on every major issue, from Ronald Reagan's raid on Libya to the Gulf war to every new weapons systems for the U.S. military. What will President Kerry do?

This is how he characterized the war on terror to Tom Brokaw: "I think there has been an exaggeration," he said. "They are really misleading all of America, Tom, in a profound way. ... It's primarily an intelligence and law-enforcement operation."

The very idea that someone would consider any of Kerry's arguments persuasive - at all, ever, for any reason - is profoundly depressing.

Posted by Mitch at March 12, 2004 05:15 AM