People who touted this book earlier this year as a cogent antidote to the Bush foreign policy are only half-right.
The author, ‘anonymous,’ has plenty to say about what Kerry has pledged as part of his foreign-policy perspective as well.
For example, he repeatedly excoriates the idea that a criminal-justice mentality is the way to ‘attack’ bin Laden.
In essence, he says bin Laden is not a criminal thug; also, contra Kerry and Bush, he is not a terrorist.
Instead, he’s an insurgent, first and foremost, like the Viet Minh, if we want to dip back into our own history. He will use terror for psychological ends, but ultimately is a guerrilla/militia/paramilitary insurgent leader.
I believe that liberals’ embrace of their own, nonconservative form of American exceptionalism, as noted here, is part of the problem.
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