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What frightens me the most about a possible Kerry presidency are the historical parallels. We've had lying, self-aggrandizing, and confused presidents in the past, and we have survived.

However, due to Islamofascism, terrorism and the spread of nuclear and other WMD, Jan. 2005 is likely the worst possible time in history to have a Neville Chamberlain-style appeaser in the White House. That was the meaning behind my "Peace in Our Time" poster.

See "The American Chamberlain" in the American Spectator.

The American Chamberlain

By William Tucker
Published 10/12/2004 12:08:59 AM

Anybody who doubts where John Kerry stands in relation to history need only read the lengthy, ingratiating portrait of him by Matt Bai in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine.

Kerry is our Neville Chamberlain, assuring us that we are not really at war, that the seeming conflict is all a misunderstanding that can be cleared up with a little clever diplomacy, and that he will bring us "peace in our time."

After a flattering portrait of Kerry as cool-headed and unflappable on September 11th (he was caught on a newsreel walking calmly down the Capitol steps while those around him were distraught), Bai, who has been covering the Kerry campaign for the Times, begins by acknowledging that, as far as much of the Democratic Party is concerned, the "War on Terror" is all an invention of the Bush Administration ...

... John Kerry sees himself as a king of ambassador-president, shuttling to world capitals and reintegrating America by force of personality, in the world community. So what's wrong with this picture?

Well, first of all, it never seems to occur to either Bai or Kerry that Kerry's model of international drug lords as the template for Al Qaeda is wrong ... Drug lords are businessmen trying to make money. They kill people and try to bring down Third World governments as a means of extending and protecting their business. They are driven by greed, which, in the end, can be satiated.

Islamic terrorists are driven by religion, not money. Their motives are not economic, which is exactly the problem. Poverty and misery are not the underlying cause. In fact, the major appeal of Islamic fundamentalism has been among the educated elite. (Engineering students seem to make the best recruits.) Exposure to Western culture usually makes Muslim fundamentalists more radical, which is why Samuel Huntington has called it as "clash of civilizations." Al Qaeda does not want to blow New York off the map because it wants to sell more heroin. It wants to destroy America because it hates it and believes Islam is destined to rule the world.

... Not only does [Kerry] not have the fortitude to fight the war on terror, he doesn't even believe we're in a war. Terror will be explained away as "crime" and ultimately "an aberration." Councils of world leaders will sit around mulling over the problem -- just as the U.N. now talks circles around itself while ignoring the situation in Iran and the Sudan.

Meanwhile, al Qaeda or some offshoot will continue burrowing until they accomplish their goal – another major terrorist attack on our soil. At that point, Kerry will have an explanation similar to Neville Chamberlain's: "Everything would have worked if only Hitler had kept his promises."

see http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7235 for the full article.

Powerline says it even better:

It may be true that, no matter how strenuous our efforts, someone, somewhere on the globe, will find a way to saw an innocent man's head off with a knife, or blow up a restaurant or night club. But to tolerate such cruelty, as a matter of policy, in the way that we tolerate prostitution or car accidents, should be viewed as utterly unacceptable. The only proper response to the cruel, inhuman terrorist acts that we have witnessed in recent years is white-hot fury. Our goal must be the utter destruction of the bottomless evil of terrorism, not the bureaucratic management of a "nuisance." That John Kerry cannot understand this basic moral fact disqualifies him from a position of leadership in our government.

-- FDL

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Great articles.
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