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Conventional Warfare In "Tearing Kerry Down" [Sept. 13] columnist Joe Klein called Senator Zell Miller's speech at the Republican Convention the "ugliest" he had ever witnessed at a convention. I felt the same way, and I have been watching political conventions since 1964, when I was a supporter of...
Klein stated that the republicans' strategy is to demolish Kerry, but all they are doing is attacking his policies, which are fair game during an election. Bush's rise in the polls following the convention showed that the criticisms of Kerry's policies hit their mark. Kerry, by contrast, responded...
But professions of outrage have done nothing to stop the killing. Immediately after labeling the Janjaweed's slaughter genocide, Powell told lawmakers, "No new action is dictated by this determination"--despite the fact that the international Genocide Convention, signed by the U.S. and 134 other countries, obligates signatories to "prevent...
Congressional leaders and some members of the Administration have tried recently to make up for lost time by denouncing the killing in Darfur. Despite Powell's statement, however, there are disagreements within the Administration and between the U.S. and its allies over whether the violence against Darfur's Africans amounts...
And in a subtler way, Dean's lack of a war record might have actually helped him. For the Kerry campaign, Vietnam has been a crutch, an all-purpose response to any foreign policy attack. Partly as a result, Kerry's team didn't use the Democratic Convention to develop...