Cut-n-pasted from
www.belmontclub.blogspot.com
It is time to return to the United Nations and return America to the community of nations to share both authority and responsibility in Iraq, and take the target off the back of our troops. This also requires a genuine Iraqi security force. The Bush Administration simply signs up recruits and gives them rudimentary training. In a Kerry Administration, we will create and train an Iraqi security force equal to the task of safeguarding itself and the people it is supposed to protect. We must offer the UN the lead role in assisting Iraq with the development of new political institutions. And we must stay in Iraq until the job is finished.
Go BACK to the United Nations? You mean the United Nations that raked in billions through the fraudulent Oil-for-Food Program? You mean the United Nations that allowed so-called "peacekeepers" to sit idly by in Srebenicia and in Rwanda while hundreds of thousands were slaughtered? You mean the United Nations that's throughly screwed the pooch in Kosovo?
I'd bet the Iraqis would LOVE to see the blue helmets back - there's a lot of IEDs and RPGs that wouldn't be flying towards our guys.
That's not a policy - it's empty-headed, feel-good platitudes. It's almost comical in its' naivete, but this is a war. Platitiudes get people killed.
Five issues that I'd like to see Kerry or his supporters answer:
1. How do you plan to address the issue of troop rotation and OpTempo in Iraq and Afghanistan? What changes do you think are necessary within the active duty/Reserve/NG forces?
2. If Iran goes nuclear within the next five years, how do you intend to deal with it?
3. If the West loses access to Mid East oil, what steps should be taken to prepare for such an eventuality?
4. What is your vision (ugh) for the War on Terror?
5. When a nuclear device is detonated in the West, how should we respond?