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The vice president suggested in a recent speech that the election of 2004 will be the most significant in 20 years. He's right. In 1984, we were engaged in a worldwide struggle that one party was committed to winning and the other party did not even want to fight. If Walter Mondale had been elected, there is every likelihood that the Soviet Union would still be standing - and lest we forget the nature of that enemy, consider what Soviet backing would have meant to a group like Al Qaida.
In 1984, the American people chose, by a rather large margin, to let Sen. Mondale return to Minnesota. Today's challenge is similar. We are facing a profound decision. On one side is President Bush, who defines himself as a war president and who has pursued a courageous and bold policy to take the fight to the enemy. On the other side is Sen. John Kerry, who promises to handle terrorism by inaugurating a "golden age of American diplomacy." Kerry has said, "The war on terror is less of a military operation and far more of an intelligence-gathering and law enforcement operation."See the full content of this document
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Election Puts Our Readiness at Stake
That, of course, was the Clinton administration's approach - and as much as we can look back with the advantage of the retrospectoscope and see that Clinton e...
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