Wrong war

The latest Kerry position on the war in Iraq is that it's "wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time". Here's Michael Doran, whose Foreign Affairs article I excerpted in yesterday's post.

It is worth remembering that Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 came on the heels of the first Palestinian intifada, which also provoked much Arab hostility toward the United States. It was Saddam's defeat that cleared a space for the Madrid Conference and eventually the Oslo peace process. Then as now, defeating Saddam would offer the United States a golden opportunity to show the Arab and Muslim worlds that Arab aspirations are best achieved by working in cooperation with Washington. If an American road to a calmer situation in Palestine does in fact exist, it runs through Baghdad.

It's clear, the strategy George Bush has chosen is to defeat terrorism through the spread of liberty in the Middle East. Kerry's opposition arises from his necessity to oppose any approach the President takes. This explains why he has no position on anything. He has to wait for George Bush to state a position so he can be against it. But if Kerry's "wrong war" nonsense is to be believed, we can expect a Kerry administration would ramp up police powers here in the U.S. as Kerry convert's the war on terror into a domestic law enforcement problem. Civil liberties will very likely suffer in a Kerry administration.