JFK Reviewed

Below I posted a speech by John F. Kennedy who was a Democrat from Massachusetts who is worthy of respect on a number of issues.

The key to his speech has been put in bold, and I'll make one change and you can basically have a speech not from Kennedy but from Bush:

Neither the United States of America nor the world community of nations can tolerate deliberate deception and offensive threats on the part of any nation, large or small. We no longer live in a world where only the actual firing of weapons represents a sufficient challenge to a nation's security to constitute maximum peril. Weapons of mass destruction and terrorism are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace.

There are still many people who do not get it, and I suspect that there always will be, but for so long all I've been hearing is how we have engaged in a pre-emptive war, and how this is unlike anything America should do or has ever done. Absolute rubbish. It has been policy, spoken policy, and with good fortune and prudence on the part of the voting population someone who understands this will remain at the helm.