AMERICA CAN AFFECT THE OUTCOME

In 1994, discussing the possibility of U.S. troops being killed in Bosnia on CNN, John Heinz Kerry said, "If you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no." If the “global test” is the sewer lid tied around John Heinz Kerry’s noticeably thin neck, this statement is his falling overboard with that sewer lid into a deep churning body of water.

For a pro like Carl Rove, this is like a Gretzky break-away on an empty net in ice hockey. About Wednesday next week this quote will be juxtaposed against Heinz Kerry’s “global test” comment from Heinz Kerry’s stunning “victory” in the first debate. The odd thing about this statement is that there is none of the Heinz Kerry nuance and an absence of the ever present BUT that Heinz Kerry has heretofore used to appeal to all sides of any argument.

U.S. soldiers dying for the UN is worth it. U.S. soldiers dying for America is unequivocally not. If Heinz Kerry believes that UN but not American efforts are worth dying for, by extension he must believe that the UN as a deliberative body must trump the U.S. congress. This comes from a man who seeks to be commander and chief of all of AMERICA’s armed forces. Who will he nominate as Secretary of Defense Kofi Annan?

That is only half of the idiocy of the Heinz Kerry statement. How about the idea that Heinz Kerry doesn’t believe that America “can affect the outcome”? Is that the kind of attitude we want from our leader? “Why, I’d like nothing more than to strike a death blow to Pan Islmo Terror Fascism, but the UN is controlled by satraps, dictators, thugs and the French. And the UN has said we just need to reduce terrorists to nuisance. Now we all know that America is incapable of affecting any outcome on its own don’t we?”

No thanks. I’ll take the clarity of George Bush’s “You’re either with us or against us.”

NOTE: I know that Kerry doesn't go by Heinz Kerry, but I thought I'd give a bit of credit to the guy who is paying for everything.