Since the Kerry campaign seems fixated on military actions from another century, I thought Mario Loyola’s article in the American Enterprise Online was apropos. In his article, Loyola compares the Kerry campaign with the battlefield performance of Napoleon’s enemies in the 1805 battle at Austerlitz.
Like the Austro-Russian army which squandered an overwhelming superiority in men and cannon to the tired French — and they started on the high ground, too — this campaign’s predictable tactics, constant indecision, sluggish execution, and general gracelessness under fire will likely be its undoing.
In the middle of the War on Terror, making John Kerry commander-in-chief could well prove calamitous. ? Kerry’s management of his own campaign contains many warnings about the kind of President he would make. Recent polls suggest that Americans are beginning to take heed.
