Nuisances

John Kerry:

"We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance," Kerry said. "As a former law-enforcement person, I know we're never going to end prostitution. We're never going to end illegal gambling. But we're going to reduce it, organized crime, to a level where it isn't on the rise. It isn't threatening people's lives every day, and fundamentally, it's something that you continue to fight, but it's not threatening the fabric of your life."

There's been lots of comment on this in the past couple of days, but when I think about it, it helps explain why Kerry believes that deposing Saddam was the wrong war at the wrong time at the wrong place. After all, what happens to a bunch of Iraqis isn't our business. It's a nuisance.

A lot of things like that are nuisances for policy wonks like Clinton and Kerry. They get on the news with pictures of little black kids with swollen bellies and not enough energy to brush the flies off their faces, or even worse, stories about caucasian Muslims being raped and murdered in Bosnian camps by Christians. Anything that makes us send in troops is a nuisance, because it takes us away from the preferred task of advancing socialism here at home and drains of money that could be used for vote-buying entitlement programs.

Kerry admires the Europeans with their planned economies and national health, and he wants us to be like them. And side tracks like deposing Middle Eastern dictators, even fighting terrorists, are just nuisances. Why can't we get back to good old Democrat politics?