John Kerry Still Doesn't Get It

June 2, 2004

John Kerry still doesn't get it. As we look back over the Cold War with the luxury of hindsight, it's indisputable that Reagan was right in his quest to win the arms race. His Peace Through Strength initiatives spent the Soviet Union into bankruptcy and onto the “ash heap of history,” as Reagan had predicted so many years before. The nuclear freeze crown predicted the utter end of the world if we didn't back down from the Soviets. They were wrong.

 

Now we face a new foe. A different kind of enemy that's not content with threats and build-ups. This new foe is bent on our utter destruction and will destroy themselves in the process to accomplish their goals. They seek and obtain weapons of mass destruction including the nuclear variety.

 

Military experts are telling us that terrorist nations are constructing command posts and nukes so deep underground we don't now possess the weapons adequate enough to get at them. That's why Congress appropriated $27 million for research into “bunker-buster” technology in May. But Kerry is against this technology. “As president, I will stop this administration's program to develop a whole new generation of bunker-busting nuclear bombs,” Kerry announced in a speech touted as the major national security speech of his campaign.

 

So, under a Kerry administration, terrorists would be able to burrow far underground in strike-proof bunkers and launch nuclear weapons at us without fear of reprisal. That's got to make you sleep well at night. It would be laughable if it weren't such a serious subject. Kerry is no different from Mondale or Dukakis and the other appeasers whose naivete was a direct threat to the security of our nation.

 

I don't like nuclear weapons any more than Kerry does but I understand their utility in securing the safety of our nation. Does he really think that terrorists won't try to attack us with these weapons of mass destruction? Does he think these people will come to the bargaining table? We're talking about a bunch of fanatical savages who think 72 virgins await them if they kill us! You can't deal rationally with people like that. Instead, you must be ready and willing to defend yourself against them and, better yet, hunt them down and kill them first, as we're presently doing.

 

As Kerry locks arms with his fellow appeasers and sways to the strains of “We Are The World,” our president is going about the dirty business of protecting our nation. You don't do that by negotiating with terrorists. You don't do that by trying to show your good faith by refraining from building weapons that the Pentagon says it needs. You do it by squashing these nuts whenever and wherever you can.

 

Kerry sings that old song of “we already have enough weapons to blow up the world 6 times.” Even if that's true, if we can't get down to their bunker to stop them from blowing us up it doesn't really matter how many times we can blow up the world, now does it?

 

This is just a scary glimpse into what would be a Kerry administration. It would be an administration of appeasement, concession and, ultimately, an escalation in terrorist attacks against our nation. Obviously Kerry didn't learn the lessons of the Cold War. If he had gotten his way, we'd still be contending with the Soviets and the terrorists. Imagine that. We're facing an indescribable evil today. We don't need some timid, UN-boot-licking appeaser calling the shots. We need a man with guts enough to face this evil. Thank God, that's what we have.