RUDY! RUDY! RUDY!
Rudy tears Mr. Nuance a new one.
"The idea that you can have an acceptable level of terrorism is frightening. How do you explain that to the people who are beheaded or the innocent people that are killed, that we’re going to tolerate a certain acceptable [level] of terrorism, and that acceptable level will exist and then we’ll stop thinking about it?"
Just for the record, Rudy, I don't think even you could explain much to someone who has been beheaded.
" If it were up to John Kerry, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, but he’d still be controlling Kuwait."
Preach it, brother!
“Finally, what he did after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, where I guess at that point terrorism was still just a nuisance. He must have thought that because that’s why he proposed seriously reducing our intelligence budget, when you would think someone who was really sensitive to the problem of terrorism would have done just the opposite. I think that rather than being some aberrational comment, it is the core of the John Kerry philosophy: that terrorism is no different than domestic law enforcement problems, and that the best we’re ever going to be able to do is reduce it, so why not follow the more European approach of compromising with it the way Europeans did in the 70s and the 80s and the 90s?"
The interview Kerry gave to which Rudy is responding here is a disaster for Kerry. It proves that even in the midst of his new "tough guy" image, he can't resist spewing a soft line on terror. Of course, the characterization he'll get for this isn't entirely fair. But this is the single most important issue of our lifetimes so far. If he can't muster a clear and consistant plan DURING HIS CAMPAIGN, what the holy hell makes you think he'll be able to do it as president?
Exactly.
"The idea that you can have an acceptable level of terrorism is frightening. How do you explain that to the people who are beheaded or the innocent people that are killed, that we’re going to tolerate a certain acceptable [level] of terrorism, and that acceptable level will exist and then we’ll stop thinking about it?"
Just for the record, Rudy, I don't think even you could explain much to someone who has been beheaded.
" If it were up to John Kerry, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, but he’d still be controlling Kuwait."
Preach it, brother!
“Finally, what he did after the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, where I guess at that point terrorism was still just a nuisance. He must have thought that because that’s why he proposed seriously reducing our intelligence budget, when you would think someone who was really sensitive to the problem of terrorism would have done just the opposite. I think that rather than being some aberrational comment, it is the core of the John Kerry philosophy: that terrorism is no different than domestic law enforcement problems, and that the best we’re ever going to be able to do is reduce it, so why not follow the more European approach of compromising with it the way Europeans did in the 70s and the 80s and the 90s?"
The interview Kerry gave to which Rudy is responding here is a disaster for Kerry. It proves that even in the midst of his new "tough guy" image, he can't resist spewing a soft line on terror. Of course, the characterization he'll get for this isn't entirely fair. But this is the single most important issue of our lifetimes so far. If he can't muster a clear and consistant plan DURING HIS CAMPAIGN, what the holy hell makes you think he'll be able to do it as president?
Exactly.