Senator Sensitive

Bob Newman

No one should have been surprised when Sen. John Kerry announced that, if elected to the presidency, he would be a more “sensitive” commander in chief. As word of this would-be policy spread around the globe, a shiver went down the spine of the United States Department of Defense and all of our intelligence organizations. At the same time, terrorists everywhere celebrated and hoped all the more fervently that the junior senator from Massachusetts is successful in his Oval Office bid.

Terrorists love an enemy’s sensitive leader. Obviously planning to carry on the Clintonista plan for national security, which failed 100% of the time for eight years running under Bill Clinton and Richard Clarke, the former sailor-turned-communist-sympathizer also claims he is going to overhaul the United States’ intelligence apparatus. This news, too, was greeted with joy by Osama bin Laden, Moqtada al Sadr, Abu Zarqawi, Yasser Arafat, Ayman al Zawahiri, and the rest of the gang, for Kerry has long demonstrated his deep desire to “reform” our intelligence assets and military by fiscally disemboweling them.

And Hanoi John also plans to “reach out” to our so-called “allies” that George Bush has correctly identified as being no more than fair-weather friends, namely the French and Germans. In other words, Kerry is going to suck up to the massively corrupt Jacques Chirac and his minion. Of course, any seasoned military man will tell you that having Frenchmen on your side on a battlefield is far more of a worrisome detriment than an asset of any kind. I personally thank God the French army didn’t show in Iraq, as a more inept military force has seldom existed. Terrorists have a name for the French army: fresh meat.

Kerry’s Achilles’ heel is his voting record, which without a doubt shows him to be a clear and present danger to America. He simply does not agree with the principle of offensive combat that says you must gain and maintain contact with the enemy rather than allow him to come to you, thus dictating terms to those on the defense. Let there be no doubt: if we fail to aggressively (rather than sensitively) fight the war on terror by bringing the fight to wherever the enemy is, far more Americans will die here at home and abroad than would otherwise have.

The terrorists are literally praying Kerry is elected, which means they will again be afforded the opportunity to rebuild their training, logistical and operational assets while Kerry scarfs pate de foie gras with one of the most crooked presidents in the sordid history of France.

I for one am not fooled by Kerry claiming he will mend his ways and become a staunch proponent of a vigorous, aggressive, well-armed and well-trained military, backed up by a dynamic intelligence service. He is what he is—an unrepentant, radical leftist who loathes the very idea of a strong military—and he can’t change that facet of his nature.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is naďve and gullible and should wake up and smell the cordite.

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Bob Newman, a decorated, retired US Marine, is co-host of "Redmond & Newman http://www.khow.com/hosts/redmond_newman.html on 630 KHOW in Denver. His “Global Positioning Statement,” a daily insider’s update on the war on terror, is carried by various Clear Channel radio stations from coast to coast. A ground-combat veteran, “Gunny Bob” is the director of international security & counterterrorism services for The GeoScope Group and is the military & terrorism columnist for The Denver Daily News.

bobnewman@clearchannel.com