During the 2004 campaign, John Kerry said that terrorism was a law enforcement problem and required a law enforcement solution, not a military one. He was largely derided for that, probably because that approach would screw up those lucrative no-bid contracts in Iraq.
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I can’t help but think that massive, indiscriminate, preemptive foreign aid could go some way towards winning a War on Terror.
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Well he was guilty of windsurfing.
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And Kerry had a foreign-born wife! How can you expect The Heartland® to vote for a man with a foreign wife? Be realistic!
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Hasn’t this been resolved? There was a famous memo from the Clinton to the Bush WH about al Qaeda being the primary threat facing the US. But since Cheney/Bush was focused on Iraq, it wasn’t interesting. Who knows if, had the new GOP national security team focused on al Qaeda instead of Saddam, they would have seen the (in retrospect pretty obvious) evidence of the planning for 9/11. But they would certainly have had a better shot than they did, looking in the entirely wrong direction for entirely bogus reasons.
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Wasn’t it parasailing? Much worse…
If the answers don’t jive with one’s agenda and world view, then it’s a matter of “want to know” rather than “need to know”.
“That guy down the street allowed burglars to rip him off so he could collect the insurance” — “hmm…interesting…I tend to agree…”
“That guy down the street robbed his own house so he could collect the insurance” — “YOU ARE CERTIFIABLY INSANE!!! YOU’RE A FREAKING ‘TRUTHER’ OMG!!!”
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