He’s saying that we shouldn’t preemptively strike if we can’t prove that it was the right thing to do, and gives Colin Powell having to apologize for his speech as a counterexample.
Is that really so hard for Bush to understand? Shouldn’t we care about world opinion and our own credibility? Or, does Bush not care if America’s credibility around the world is reduced? Should America be known as the country that fibs?
]]>I was at a loss for an answer. Outside of starting an answer with “well you just have to understand….” which sucks. I know why each situation is different but how to explain in a short way to a group of people who don’t know much about world politics?
]]>Another point: did the Gulf War “pass the global test”? Because he voted against it.
What this shows is that world opinion actually IS irrelevant to Kerry - he is always anti-war, no matter what the international community thinks. He’s of course only using the “global test” canard this time because the rest of the world happened to agree with his anti-war stance this time.
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