Ok, I know I'm just a lowly conservative and all but here's some of (my overly simplistic I know) concerns
For one thing, I'm tired of Kerry's (and the left's in general) definition of the word "unilateral"...as if a 33 nation coalition doesn't count...oh wait, France isn't part of that coalition so I guess it doesn't after all....
Global Test....what a joke. Kerry thinks patience will peacefully win the day? yeah, why don't we just take France, Russia and China's position and just sit back and make some shady under the counter hundreds of millions off Saddam and the woefully ineffective oil for food program while Saddam blatantly ignores resolution after resolution. Let's not disrupt the status quo. What do we care? We get cash and nobody gets hurt (except for a few million irrelevant Iraqis)....sweet. Sounds like a plan.
And what happens when we apply the so called "global test" to Israel? Any action in support of the Imperial Zionists would fly with a world court like the proverbial lead balloon, regardless of it's legitimacy. But I've noticed Kerry hasn't addressed that potentially hairy possibility.
And since we're gonna act all global and everything, how do you reconcile that with Kerry's obviously protectionist stance on world trade? He's gonna alienate everybody (except France I'm sure) on that one. He used to be fairly pro-trade as a Senator, so why as a presidential candidate has he suddenly taken such an opposite tack? He now wants to punish multi-national US corporations, calling their CEOs "Benedict Arnolds"...conspicuously never mentioning his wife's interests overseas. He wants to threaten US tax incentives for foreign investors. And with his attack on the global outsourcing market, just how will that effect our relationship with Mexico, India and China for example? Not well, I can gaurantee. And considering Edwards' even stronger protectionist stance on free trade it only reinforces his suddenly new found position on the issue. Yeah, I'm getting real mixed signals on his idea of what globalism actually means.
So what would this "global test" look like anyway?
I'm thinking something like this:
