7/05/2004 11:27:48 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

The abortion stance Kerry has taken still bothers me. Not for the flip-flopping, though - with John Kerry, one must have a high threshold of tolerance for intellectual dishonesty to just observe him. It is the logical premise that one supposedly believes strongly in an issue but refuses to advance it that is bothersome. The belief that life begins at conception cannot be squared with the refusal to promote policies and laws that limit abortion.

This same vacuous thinking is often seen on the anti-war left, of which Kerry is sometimes and sometimes not a part. The whole premise that one can support the troops but not support their mission is as laughable as Kerry's recent pontifications on abortion. If the fetus is a life at conception, society ought condemn any course of action which seeks to kill it. Anything short of this condemns the society and the mores which allow the doublespeak.

The purpose of the military is to fight and defeat tyranny wherever it exists for the purpose of advancing the security interests of the United States. In short, the United States military exists to defend freedom. Its mission is its reason for being. To be against the mission is to oppose the existence of the institution, for without the mission, the military is pointless. The problem is that the media never asks the follow-up question: what is the military for, if it's not for what it's currently doing? The answer to that follow-up question would be telling, and would permanently dispel the notion that you can be for the troops and against the mission. As well, opposed to abortion while condoning its continuation.

John Kerry, the master of doublethought.

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