Reply #11: Interesting Conjecture - high 50s [View All]

[karynnj]

Many things in foreign policy would change on the dime. He would put his Iraq plan into affect. At minimum, there would be more trained security and more help form the world. There would be a clear statement on no permanent bases, so I do think we'd be closer to leaving and would be changing the character of the war over there. Kerry had (and I'm sure has) strong moral values on war crimes, I think this would be reflected down throuh the military.

I think he would have been more active, possibly using Clinton, in using the death of Arafat as an opportunity. Through the press has forgotten, the day before they talked truce, Condi said they should resolve it themselves.

He would be pushing to get more of teh nuclear materials and he would probably be dealing with Pakistsan in a different way.

Domestically, he could veto things like the bankrupcy bill.

I don't think he would have gotten much of a honeymoon, but I would imagine he would have had very concilatory SOTU and innagural address speaches trying to heal the anger.


If the negativity of the press was based on fear of the Bush administration's vindictiveness, they might be better