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The One year anniversary of George Bush's landing on the carrier U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln-- John Kerry's flawed metaphor.·

Intruder!  I'm Dubya demanding
you state who's the pilot commanding
a plane in my space
at sub-sonic pace
and state where you're headed for landing.

To Dubya-- I'm Kerry, who's planning
to prove to a nation demanding
the steps I would take
as proof I can make
superior carrier landings.

To Kerry-- It's risky to coddle
your engines with slack on the throttle
or else you will stall
and then you will fall
and thus will your mission be hobbled.

To Bush--  It's a year since the day
when you in a Viking displayed
your piloting skills
(but not landing skills)
for carrier-landing that day.

To Dubya-- my slogan I'm chanting
describing your carrier landing
as "stunts for the news,"
but I, unlike you,
know something of carrier landings.

To Kerry-- Your slogan I've heard,
but swift-boats I thought you'd preferred
and didn't perceive
your great expertise
on carrier landings with verve.

To Dubya-- My slogan, you fool,
is my metaphorical tool
for teamwork applied
with people allied
to reach a safe landing, you fool.

To Dubya-- the faith that you shower
too much on American power
induces defiance
instead of reliance
on allies as sources of power.

To John-- Unlike you I have learned,
the fact that sincerely I yearned
for allies who'd boost
the power for use,
it's we, 'stead of they, who've been spurned.

The risks, my dear John, in depending
on them on a mission descending
through dangerous "weather"
is worse 'stead of better
for reaching the place we're intending.

To John-- Bumpy landings are better
than seeking more power that's fettered
by choice to rely
on engines comprised
of types that so often are feathered.

    This has been a consistent "theme" of John Kerry's campaign-- using George Bush's carrier landing on the U.S.S. Lincoln a year ago as a metaphor for characterizing Bush's military judgment as "showmanship" in comparison to the fact that Kerry knows "something" about combat.  Courageous people may nevertheless be terrible strategists.  If Kerry's strategic vision in 1991 were to have been accepted by Bush 41, then Kuwait would now be a de jure province of Iraq and Saudi Arabia would be a de facto province of Iraq with respect to oil revenue.

    By now, Saddam Hussein almost certainly would have nuclear weapons (in addition to chemical and biological weapons).  He would have become the de facto leader of the Arab world.  He would have a gold-plated military.  The risks of a nuclear confrontation between Hussein's Iraq and Israel would be escalating.  Israel would have little confidence that the United States would risk nuclear war with Saddam to save Israel from nuclear blackmail.  Virtually no Arab state would be willing to be perceived by Saddam as willing to cooperate with the United States or even think about peace with Israel.  

    Hussein would have access to huge sums of oil revenues with which to purchase the expertise of disaffected Soviet Scientists.  He would have forced a nuclear alliance with North Korea and possibly Pakistan.  The world balance of power would be radically different than it is today, and the balance would not be in favor of a trend toward freedom and away from tyranny.

    Who would challenge Saddam under such circumstances?  The French?  The Germans?  Anyone in Europe?  How about Canada?  The United Nations?  The Soviets?  By now, we would have entered the Second Cold War but this time with an adversary as sociopathic as was Stalin rather than someone such as Gorbachev.  We would be spending vastly larger sums on ways to try to counter Hussein's nuclear arsenal.  The so-called "peace dividend" from the end of the First Cold War would have long disappeared.  

--Jim Wrenn, Editor@PoliSat.Com.

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