In these debates, John Kerry has now twice raised his opposition to our development of a bunker-busting nuclear bomb, saying that we shouldn't be expanding our own nuclear weapons capability at the same time we seek to deny it to other countries.
Which means that the man who would be our President thinks more of some profitless point of consistency and "fairness" in the eyes of the world than in reaffirming America's essential goodness and the right to defend herself.
And the Kerrion take offense at the suggestion that their candidate is preferred among the defeatists of Europe and the murderous minds behind Islamofascism?
Because who is it that he seeks to appease by opposing such a class of nuclear weapons? Who is Kerry trying to impress with this foolish equanimity? Only those who already distrust us and who cannot wait for the end of Bush's interregnum of resolve and "unilateralism." People like Kim Jong-Il and the mullahcracy of Iran. When they hear that Kerry is dead set against these ground-penetrating nuclear bombs, they realize that they may yet get away with their own nuclear programs, which they pursue in underground complexes ---the very kind of places that such a bunker-busting nuke is designed to vaporize. And Kerry is telling them that he will put an end to such a technology? What an utter fool. You never tell the enemy what you won't do. You leave all the options on the table and let the enemy wonder just how far he can push it. With us, it is never very far.
Kerry's distrust of America's military power is one of the few consistent strains of his thought. His political life began in exploitation of that distrust and it has never truly abated. As a politician, the only times he has appeared to move beyond it is when he calculated that it would benefit him to be more of a hawk. That isn't the kind of commitment to this war against Islamofascism that we need right now.
Ultimately, Kerry's distrust of America's military power disturbs us most because it ignores the great good that we have put it to in defense of liberty and democratic ideals. Even as I write these words, the people of Afghanistan are exercising their right to vote ---something they have never done in all the centuries of their history. This very day, friends. It shouldn't be necessary to say that this is all thanks to America and her allies and the military power we used to liberate Afghanistan. The Soviets never brought the Afghan people that kind of freedom. Nor did the British Empire or Alexander the Great. We, the People of the United States did that.
So forget your superficial concessions to logical or moral consistency, Senator. They are the hobgoblins of your appeasing, pandering little mind.