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It is a sad state of affairs when I can watch "The West Wing" on TV, and wish the TV president was the president instead of the real one. In the sixth season premiere that aired last night, American officials traveling in Ghaza have been attacked by way of bomb. Most of the president's staff, the joint chiefs of staff, and the American public want a military reaction. The president refuses. Does everything in his power to instead get Isreal and Palestinian officials to have peace talks. Most everyone is against him except for a select few. In the end, all three parties show up for peace talks at Camp David, and the episode ends at the beginning of them.
That is the kind of president we need in real life. The kind of president we have is one who detests diplomacy for the simple reason that he is not good at it. He would rather dispatch the military to kick some red white and blue ass on whoever hit us first. Actually, that's not completely true. Sometimes he doesn't even need someone to hit us first to go the route of kicking some red white and blue ass.
We went from Bill Clinton - who was a diplomatic genius, a man who for all intents and purposes came closer to establishing some kind of peace in the middle east than few presidents ever have, by way of diplomacy for the most part - to George W. Bush -a man who has created a daunting quagmire in the middle east and has done virtually NOTHING in his four years concerning Isreal or Palestine. Why? Because he knows military attacks won't do anything in regards to Isreal and Palestine. As for Iraq, well, there's a whole different forum for that subject.
I want a president who has the patience and the lingual skills and even the sheer desire to try to resolve problems without using the military and with the use of diplomacy. Will I get that in John Kerry? I don't know, I really don't. But I know I won't get it in George W. Bush. That's why I'm voting for Kerry. Among other things.
That is the kind of president we need in real life. The kind of president we have is one who detests diplomacy for the simple reason that he is not good at it. He would rather dispatch the military to kick some red white and blue ass on whoever hit us first. Actually, that's not completely true. Sometimes he doesn't even need someone to hit us first to go the route of kicking some red white and blue ass.
We went from Bill Clinton - who was a diplomatic genius, a man who for all intents and purposes came closer to establishing some kind of peace in the middle east than few presidents ever have, by way of diplomacy for the most part - to George W. Bush -a man who has created a daunting quagmire in the middle east and has done virtually NOTHING in his four years concerning Isreal or Palestine. Why? Because he knows military attacks won't do anything in regards to Isreal and Palestine. As for Iraq, well, there's a whole different forum for that subject.
I want a president who has the patience and the lingual skills and even the sheer desire to try to resolve problems without using the military and with the use of diplomacy. Will I get that in John Kerry? I don't know, I really don't. But I know I won't get it in George W. Bush. That's why I'm voting for Kerry. Among other things.
I hope I make it too!
