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I think the one substantive issue Kerry espouses is that of securing the former Soviets nuclear arsenal. It's amazing that of all the weapons produced during the cold war era, that none have fallen into the hands of some terrorist despot, yet. This as he has stated has been an active and paramont issue for him and I for one applaud him for that. But as Bush said, this issue is part of the overall anti terrorist package.
As far as funding the crumbling domestic infrastructure, I think this is a result of the overall economic downturn that Bush inherited combined with the economic fallout of 9/11. Since 9/11 businesses have felt the pinch in generation revenues and thereby erroding the tax base that supports government infrastructures. I know that post 9/11 my own small business saw a marked and dramatic decrease in revenue. The last thing I can afford is more taxes to support an increased infrastructure. To set up a defensive infrastructure, such as increased policing of our harbors and borders, look at say, Long Beach Harbor and the flow of goods and the enormity of the task to comb through every vessle. The cost would be taken up by both the tax payer and the prices of these commodities would skyrocket. Secondly, given the volume of goods and the expanse of our borders I think this would be physically impossible. By contrast the present offensive plan would seem like a bargain.
To say that Bushes solution is dropping bombs is grossly over simplifying. Ironically, I believe the reason he's in this present quandary is because he hadn't decisively dealt with the likes of Sadre and the insurgents. Instead of militarily solving the problem of dealing with this rat, he did what all the world and liberals want him to do, he negotiated. Everytime we had this guy cornered he outsmarted us only to return and keep the cause of the insurgency alive. Make no mistake, they are now fighting and indiscriminantly killing to influence the out come of our election, only to make our president sqirm and be backed into a corner in the debate. Kerry is shrewd enough to grasp this opportunity.
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