Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Edwards, Kerry Invite Bush Counterattack on Language
Edwards opened a door again last night that Kerry-Edwards might ultimately regret if the Bush campaign simply chooses to take advantage of their mistakes:
With John Kerry as president of the United States, we are committed to immediately implementing all of the reforms suggested by the 9/11 Commission, so that we have the information we need to find terrorists and crush them before they hurt us.
Edwards was following Kerry's line of attack during the first debate last week, when Kerry complained about the FBI's Arabic translator shortage.
Their problem, and Team Bush's opportunity, is that both Kerry and Edwards are firmly on record as supporting policies that would only make the Arabic translator shortage worse.
Via Edwards' own Senate web site:
First, we need to stop differences in language and culture from interfering with good health care. I'd start with a National Medical Translation System. That means an effective, in-person translation system at every hospital in the biggest cities. For smaller cities and rural hospitals, we need a National Medical Translation Center—24 hours a day, 7 days a week, translators on call. To make this work, it'll take new incentives for doctors and nurses to become translators. At the end of the day, we will have solid medical translation services for the most vulnerable people in our society.
Note Edwards' lack of hesitation, in a speech given nearly two years after 9/11, about diverting limited Arabic translation resources from the FBI.
Still more documentation that, in a Kerry-Edwards Administration, political correctness would always triumph over national security can be found in my piece for NRO.
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