This is why I'm dead scared about Kerry becoming president

This is why I'm dead scared about Kerry becoming president. Kerry sees terrorism as a "nuisance", no different than prostitution or illegal gambling:

“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.”

Yes, exactly... let's "get back to the place we were" on September 10th.

This cuts to the heart of the difference in approach between Bush and Kerry (and Clinton). Kerry just doesn't get it. I imagine it's like what watching Neville Chamberlain was like in the 1930's. God help us if Kerry is put in power.

Via LGF and Drudge and all over the place.

Update: Eugene Volokh has comments very much worth reading (via IP):

The way law enforcement has dealt with prostitution and illegal gambling is by occasionally trying to shut down the most visible and obvious instances, tolerating what is likely millions of violations of the law per year... These are examples of practical surrender, or at least a cease-fire punctuated by occasional but largely half-hearted and ineffectual sorties. It's true that illegal gambling and prostitution aren't "threatening the fabric of [American] life," but that's because they never threatened it that much in the first place. One can live in a nation with millions of acts of prostitution or illegal gambling per year or per day... Surely the strategy for dealing with terrorism must be very different, in nearly every conceivable way, from the strategy for dealing with prostitution or illegal gambling.

Update: That was fast. Good ad.

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Afghan elections

Via Power Line

Update: Roundup of good reports about the election at InstaPundit. Also see this.

Update: More.

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