What Kerry Won't Tell Americans

[Larkspur]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0922-06.htm

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To describe what he would do in Iraq if he becomes president, Kerry put forward a vague, four-point program. ... Kerry said he would immediately call together the America's allies to mobilize them to help out in Iraq. But, as an example, would Canada actually get directly involved there, even if the U.S. president were Kerry, and a Democrat with whom Canadians tend to feel comfortable, rather than Bush? To ask that question is to answer it.
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Kerry's policy... is ... the worst option of all. ... He would start withdrawing troops next year and bring them all out in four years, or by the end of his first term.

During the Vietnam War, public opinion turned against the conflict once Americans realized they were sacrificing their lives in a futile mission.

This time, although far less confidently than at its start, public opinion still supports the war in Iraq. The reason is that Americans remain convinced that cost of a withdrawal would be an increase in attacks upon them in their own homeland.

Until that attitude changes, Kerry cannot tell his voters the truth — that they've lost the war and the sooner they turn their backs on it the better.
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