What Would John Forbes Kerry Do?

[J_CARVILLE]

Fact: China is pressuring Taiwan for "reunification."

Fact: China has openly and repeatedly threatened the United States with nuclear war over the issue.

John Kerry has just been elected President by the slimmest of margins and Premeir Hu, Jin Tao has called him and and instead of offering the expected congratulations of a transformed enemy willing to work with a new Democrat Administration happy to see Bush go, John Forbes Kerry is told that reunification is about to begin.

What does John Forbes Kerry do?

Is our promise to protect Taiwan's Democracy worth risking a nuclear strike?

Is it better to let the Communist Chinese take Taiwan, but to negotiate a peaceful takeover and get a promise that traditional enemy Viet Nam will not be invaded in the current on-going dispute over who owns a couple of small Islands in the South China Sea?

It is the same question that faced Neville Chaimberlain...

So What Would John Forbes Kerry do?

 

[woody54]

So What Would John Forbes Kerry do?

Become the President first off, then choose able advisors.

 

[christophe]

flip a coin...best two out of three....or maybe best three out of five

 

[J_CARVILLE]

They could take turn flipping coins and reading the I-Ching until they found an interpretation they could agree on. Bet Kerry eventually drives Hu crazy as the previous interpretations are constantly changed by Kerry...

 

[J_CARVILLE]

Does Kerry have ANY supporters or is it just the year to hate Bush and truly ANYBODY will do as long as they are breathing?

 

[ruminator]

Does Kerry have ANY supporters or is it just the year to hate Bush and truly ANYBODY will do as long as they are breathing?

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Yes

 

[J_CARVILLE]

It was a rhetorical bump...

They even have to swallow and defend the Cambodia lie!

tee hee
tee hee

How low will you go?

 

[eagleyez]

perhaps Kerry would do what all presidents do and dispatch his secretary of state and a team of analysts and diplomats and try to make a reasoned judgement.

shooting from the hip is Bush's style. Good riddance that.

 

[J_CARVILLE]

It took him 15 months to invade Iraq...

If that's shooting from the hip, then I'm an Ent.

 

[eagleyez]

yes perhaps deployment took just as long in desert storm-- gotta get all the materials and men in place.

in my opinion- he decided to invade Iraq the moment he heard of the 9-11 attacks.

that decision is panning out real nicely isnt it???

 

[J_CARVILLE]

Well, he did come out a week later and come out with the Axis of Evil speech...

He identified the problem and picked a methodology for dealing with it and decided to let the chips fall politically for taking a real stand on an issue (one that can be relentlessly attacked).

Obviously John Forbes Kerry would have been nuanced enough to have avoided the pitfall of making a real tough decision. He would have given a great speech, fired any Republicans he could find under his command, and he would have vowed to hunt down the perpetrators and send them to jail for life! Again, man cut from the same cloth as Chamberlain.

 

[eagleyez]

Well, he did come out a week later and come out with the Axis of Evil speech...

He identified the problem and picked a methodology for dealing with it and decided to let the chips fall politically for taking a real stand on an issue (one that can be relentlessly attacked).

Obviously John Forbes Kerry would have been nuanced enough to have avoided the pitfall of making a real tough decision. He would have given a great speech, fired any Republicans he could find under his command, and he would have vowed to hunt down the perpetrators and send them to jail for life! Again, man cut from the same cloth as Chamberlain.

Your clairvoyace never ceases to amaze me AJ. Tough decisions dont, on their own, provide positive outcomes. The Gulf of Tonkin reaction comes to mind.

Hand it to the ole boy, however, he didnt dick (cheney) around.

 

[J_CARVILLE]

You are correct in saying that a tough decision is not neccessarily a correct one. It is simply one John Kerry cannot make because his whole world is nuance. Nuance is a paralysis of the thought process which negates the ideas of right and wrong, good and evil.

Kerry can't even come out and tell us the truth about Cambodia...

He may no longer even know the truth!

 

[eagleyez]

You are correct in saying that a tough decision is not neccessarily a correct one. It is simply one John Kerry cannot make because his whole world is nuance. Nuance is a paralysis of the thought process which negates the ideas of right and wrong, good and evil.

Kerry can't even come out and tell us the truth about Cambodia...

He may no longer even know the truth!

me thinkith you run this nuance notion a wee bit too hard.

put away wet...

mornin btw hope things are goog down yonder.

 

[J_CARVILLE]

It's true.

Kerry flip-flops.

He a flake who will pop off with pretty much anything at any time and the Press will cover for him because he was and continues to be their Golden Boy, The War Hero who won Vietnam for them.

He doesn't have charisma though. That's how Bill can pull this shit off...

Fan-Damn-Tastic!

We have been having unusual fall-like weather. Even able to put on a nice fire in the evenings...

 

[eagleyez]

its a wee bit chilly here too-

good for sucking down mud and catching up on all the evil media.

Like the sports page- did the red sox win- hows nfl training camps goin, poor charlie watts with throat cancer, hurricanes and what Cheney had for dinner.

 

[J_CARVILLE]

I don't follow baseball anymore.

It's a Republican game!

Everyone's a millionaire it seems...

I don't do yachting or polo either. I'd have to learn which fork put the relish on the hot dawg with...

 

[eagleyez]

I don't follow baseball anymore.

It's a Republican game!

Everyone's a millionaire it seems...

I don't do yachting or polo either. I'd have to learn which fork put the relish on the hot dawg with...

ok lay ya odds

Patriots threepeat in 05-

That oughta make President Kerry happy-

 

[J_CARVILLE]

Nope, it's the year of Vermeil!

For some strange reason, right at the end of the season, the Pats are gonna see a slump in the stats as everyone begins to wear down after a grueling four-year campaign to control the world [of football!]. They will start out 7-0 and then try to sit on the lead while the real CHIEFs sneak up and scalp 'em like the Khmer Rouge on a rampage!

 

[eagleyez]

Nope, it's the year of Vermeil!

For some strange reason, right at the end of the season, the Pats are gonna see a slump in the stats as everyone begins to wear down after a grueling four-year campaign to control the world [of football!]. They will start out 7-0 and then try to sit on the lead while the real CHIEFs sneak up and scalp 'em like the Khmer Rouge on a rampage!

ok point taken

If Dick weeps he's got my vote-

San Francisco boys are so emotional



its the west coast offense after all.

 

[J_CARVILLE]

lol - I got nothing for that!

He sure wears it on his sleeve.

Let's write-in Vermeil for President!

 

[J_CARVILLE]

Let Bellecheck have SecDef...

 

[J_CARVILLE]

He's a genious ya know...

 

[eagleyez]

Let Bellecheck have SecDef...

good call that

 

[J_CARVILLE]

I'm not completely nuts, just mostly.

Guess what goes on sale today?