THOSE DAMNED NUISANCES

‘’We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they’re a nuisance,'’ Kerry said. ‘’As a former law-enforcement person, I know we’re never going to end prostitution. We’re never going to end illegal gambling. But we’re going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn’t on the rise. It isn’t threatening people’s lives every day, and fundamentally, it’s something that you continue to fight, but it’s not threatening the fabric of your life.”

It’s hard to believe that someone clueless enough to say that will probably end up getting at least 45% of the vote on Nov 2. (He will of course deny having said it by Mon noon.) If you call terrorists nuisances, you know like, “Those damned nuisances flew planes into the World Trade Center.” How do you refer to someone who calls your house and asks, “Is your refrigerator running?”

One of my major problems with John Kerry is that I’ve always considered him an elitist snob. What else could you call someone, not participating in the Tour De France, but thinks he needs to ride an $8,000 bicycle? Now, according to Kerry, the guys fighting and dying in Afghanistan and Iraq are engaged in some kind of “police action” (Where have we heard that before?). Those damned nuisances are chopping off heads and blowing up cars in Iraq and are killing hundreds of school children in Russia. In Israel the damned nuisances are blowing up buses and pizza parlors. Aahh, if we could just get back to where we were on Sep 10 when the damned nuisances were only hijacking an occasional airliner or blowing up the occasional embassy - if we could just get to some sane level of terrorism. It's idiotic! Tolerating pre 9-11 terrorism is exactly what caused 9-11.

There are a lot of terms that come to mind to describe our enemy in today’s war, pan-Islamo-terror-fascist is descriptive. Words like nuisances, trouble-makers, and rabble-rousers don’t make my list. The fact that Kerry chooses one of these terms to describe an enemy that would kill us all in our sleep if they could is proof of his total lack of understanding as to the nature of the conflict in which we are engaged. Kerry’s likening of our troops’ efforts in winning that conflict to that of law-enforcement officers’ breaking up a prostitution or gambling ring is an affront to their heroic service.