What if I said.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Well, Radar, your grandiose hollerings cast you in the role of blockhead, which seems an odd one for a man of your parts. You're rather losing your self-possession, aren't you?

There's no shame in being guided by me; I'm not here to steer you wrong, but to steer you right.

Kerry, as Senator, hardly missed any opportunity to weigh in against the Republic's interest, particularly when there were Communist interests involved, viz., his votes on the Contras: uniformly pro-Sandinista, and given the Sandinistas' record of being both collectivist and incompetent, that's hard to forgive, and illustrative of the man's altogether ridiculous priorities. He was no apostle of either democracy or the Republic's interests in foreign arenas, and that, Radar, is a matter of record. It was good for the nation to vote against Kerry, and that is precisely what we did, by a popular vote margin of three and a half million. Would that it had been thirty-five. It's just sensible to shrink the influence those socialist Democrats wield in our nation, which sensibility seems largely to escape you, for reasons I can't fathom. You've explained them some as you see them, but what I hear tells me they aren't good enough for me to adopt. The Republicans think like libertarians a good bit more than the Democrats can, however much they fail at putting such precepts into actual practice. The Dems, intoxicated on socialist ideas, don't even pay them lip service. So, I don't think voting for Dems is good for us on the domestic front, and frankly, the Dems are completely absent on the foreign-policy front.

Now for you to have any understanding of where I'm coming from in foreign policy, here's the material you must read: The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the 21st Century and Blueprint For Action: a Future Worth Creating, both by Thomas P.M. Barnett. You'll enjoy the read -- Barnett's a lucid and engaging writer. One or two of the ideas he's put forth I don't agree with: he declares the era of great-power war is finished, and that warfare in the future is all going to be in the Non-Integrating Gap states and the Seam States that border the Gap's fringes. War being a part of the human condition -- we're our own natural enemy simply because there is nothing else on the planet as lethal as we humans -- I am wary of such happy pronouncements. At best, I think we are in for a lengthy, but still in the end temporary, condition of peace within the world's Economically Functional Core, a/k/a the developed world.

Barnett's Website

The guy seems to have quite a vision, and it checks out pretty well. So far, I'm fascinated.