Koch for Bush

Amazingly, Democratic former mayor of New York City Ed Koch comes out for Bush over the Democrats in the area of foreign policy and defense.

* I believe the Bush doctrine of "mak[ing] no distinction between the terrorists who committed [the September 11] acts and those who harbor them," rivals in importance and impact the Monroe and Truman doctrines.

* ...President Bush also was correct in refusing to sign the Kyoto Protocol...The Senate was right to oppose the Protocol...

* ...President Bush's opposition to the International Court of Justice is also well grounded.

* ...President Bush also was right to withdraw from the ABM Treaty.

* ...President Bush, whom I do not agree with on a single domestic issue, has distinguished himself by his willingness to take on international terrorism. Most of his Democratic opponents who are running for president do not have the stomach to stand up to the bin Ladens and Saddam Husseins of the world.

He sums up the Democratic problem in a nutshell.

Appeasement never works. It simply whets the appetite of aggressors, causing them to demand even more from the victim.