Reply #14: I agree, in many ways it's a "campaign on terrorism" rather than a war [View All]

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Kerry did point out in his speech that it requires political, economic, diplomatic, and other means rather than military alone.

But the military is deployed, and people need to see Kerry as a capable commander in chief. The Chimp has long led in polls on that (and it's a stereotype that's decades old now that Democrats aren't "strong" or that they "loathe the military"). So Democrats are smart to address that and turn it around.

The "war" isn't a war in a traditional sense because it's not state against state. But it definitely requires the cooperation and collaboration of other governments, something that a new president -- simply by virtue of being a new president, alone -- will be able to achieve, while Chimp's political capital is spent.