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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
We are on the same page on tactics. My absolute doubt is on strategy and committment. Rummy sucks and needs to go so that our soldiers are allowed to fight the way they were trained. But I'm not sure that Kerry puts them into the fight in the first place, except as a limited reaction to events. I hate to keep harping on the "reaction" vs. "preemption" thing, but its really a core issue now.
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Preemption is a really nice doctrine if you are in control around the world and ready to engage on mulitple fronts. But are we ready to let Russia loose with preemption?
It's not difficult to justify going into a country where bad things are happening without arguing preemption -- for examples of a Democrat doing just that, you need look no further than Clinton in Somalia and the Balkans. I'd anticipate Kerry to actually be more focused on foreign policy than Clinton was -- Clinton very much ran on and felt most comfortable with domestic issues, while foreign policy has always been Kerry's more comfortable arena.
