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(回答先: John Kerry for President [The New York Times] 投稿者 ひろ 日時 2004 年 10 月 18 日 00:11:00)
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2004/10/17/kerry_for_president/
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2004/10/17/kerry_for_president?mode=PF
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The Boston Globe
GLOBE EDITORIAL
Kerry for President
October 17, 2004
IN 1984, when he was still lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, John Kerry became interested in the emerging problem of acid rain. Some people mocked the idea of poisonous rain from the skies, but Kerry embarked on a fact-finding mission across Europe, where he saw the devastation of industrial pollution on the Black Forest in Germany and many historic buildings.
He took the issue to a meeting of the six New England governors and the eastern Canadian premiers, resulting in the first international agreement on acid rain controls. The pact became a blueprint for the reauthorized Clean Air Act in 1990.
In 1997, four years before Sept. 11, Kerry published "The New War," which was derived from his years leading the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Operations. In the book, Kerry described a changed global landscape after the end of the Cold War, with security threats coming less from nation-states than from shadowy criminal groups. Although it dwelled mostly on drug cartels and the Russian mafia, "The New War" also addressed the threat of Islamic terrorism and called for international cooperation to fight it.
"We should be the natural leaders of a world coalition against crime," Kerry wrote, "but we have yet to recognize the `new crime's' scale and sophistication."
This year as a presidential candidate, Kerry has offered a plan for energy independence that is notable not just for its sweep and technical detail but because it recognizes the destabilizing effect of resource shortages in the struggle for world security.
These three examples highlight John Kerry's core strengths: an ability to see complex problems in new, often prescient, ways and a willingness to seek collaborative solutions. Far from being wavering or indecisive, Kerry's worldview has been steadfastly informed by these values for as long as we on this page have known him. In complex and dangerous times, the United States needs a leader who can bring together people and ideas. For these reasons, the Globe endorses John F. Kerry for president and John Edwards for vice president in the critical election Nov. 2.
Much attention during this campaign has focused on the performance of the incumbent president, and we address that in the editorial below. Here, however, we focus on the case for Kerry.
Voters who had developed ideas about Kerry from his opponent's caricatures may have been surprised by the person they saw in the three televised debates. Knowledgeable, pragmatic, with an agile, focused mind -- Kerry was the same man in all three appearances.
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the presidential historian, was asked by Globe editors recently whether he saw any comparisons between Kerry and John F. Kennedy, in whose administration Schlesinger served. Although he knew Kennedy better, he said he found the two men "similar in that they prove politicians can be intellectuals." Despite the general debasement of American politics, this is still a desirable trait in a president.
These are challenging times for any leader. On the signal issues of this campaign -- the Iraq war and terrorism -- Kerry is up to the challenge. Persuading our allies to share more of the military and economic burden in Iraq is a daunting task, but only Kerry has the credibility to bring them to the table. Iraq, simply put, is out of control. Kerry is best qualified bring it under control, not least by reassuring the Iraqis themselves that the United States does not have permanent designs on their strategic bases or oil. On terrorism, Kerry understands that intelligence, police work, diplomacy, and economic development are the the principal weapons against a diffuse but knowable enemy.
At home, Kerry is a strong supporter of civil rights and women's rights. His nominees to the Supreme Court would not be likely to roll back decades of important gains for women and minorities.
He would rein in the Bush deficit by restoring 1990s-era tax rates to the top brackets. Although we fear that rolling back the tax cuts will not produce enough revenue to halve the deficit and implement Kerry's ambitious healthcare plan, his priorities are right: to restore fiscal sanity and to reduce the number of Americans without health insurance -- at 45 million, a national scandal.
John Kerry has done more than most to heal the wounds of the nation's last great polarizing struggle, Vietnam, traveling there with Republican Senator John McCain to settle the issue of MIAs and normalize relations. He is best suited to heal our painful rifts now -- not just with the community of nations but within this nation, rent by social, ideological, economic, and religious divisions. These sap the strength of America. We are confident a Kerry presidency will restore both unity and strength.
© Copyright 2004 The New York Times Company
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