Even countries like Saudi Arabia that have financed terrorism experience deadly terrorist attacks on their own soil. From Indonesia to the Philippines terrorists kill and maim civilians.
Whether or not Iraq possesses or possessed weapons of mass destruction is irrelevant. The regime of Saddam Hussein murdered and tortured hundreds of thousands of its own citizens and posed a threat to its neighboring countries, including Israel.
There is a war being waged between Judeo-Christian civilization and Islamic fundamentalist tyranny.
After the September 11 attacks on the United States, President Bush said that every nation in every region has a decision to make: ”Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.”
The president came to the conclusion that the security of the U.S. and the free world was at stake. He decided that preemption was the only way to overcome this danger — even if America would have to go it alone.
On September 20, 2001, in a historic speech to a joint session of Congress, Mr. Bush declared, ”Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.”
My decision about whom to vote for in this year’s presidential election is based quite simply on whether that person’s leadership will be good for the U.S., the world and the State of Israel.
None of the original ten 2004 Democratic presidential candidates met this criterion. I carefully examined the credentials of each and concluded that I would not trust any one of them to govern the United States of America.
If elected, the presumptive Democratic nominee, John Kerry, most likely would reduce our military capabilities, decimate our defense budget, shrink from engaging terror groups with the might of our armed forces, and naively negotiate with our sworn enemies.
On the Arab-Israeli front, Kerry promised that if elected he would covet the services of Jimmy Carter and James Baker as special envoys to the region. These men are not friends of Israel and have long favored the Arab cause.
President Bush, in sharp contrast, has made it clear that the United States will not obstruct Israel’s efforts to defend itself from Palestinian terrorism.
In purely political terms, President Bush knows that the tens of millions of evangelical Christians who comprise his base are staunchly pro-Israel.
America under George W. Bush has liberated Afghanistan and Iraq, enabling these countries to contemplate a brighter, hopefully democratic, future.
Not once has President Bush invited the arch-terrorist Yasir Arafat to the White House. When Bill Clinton was president, it seemed as though Arafat was his permanent house guest.
Under President Bush, the U.S. will remain the most powerful nation on earth and the war on terrorism will remain America’s number one foreign policy priority. Mr. Bush understands that terrorism is potentially linked to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. And he further understands – a most critical point – that without global security, there can be no long-term growth in our economy.
President Bush’s strategic worldview is bracingly clear: the promotion of an international order that prizes freedom and dignity; the rule of law; free speech; freedom of worship; equal justice; religious and ethnic tolerance; and respect for private property.