I always felt bad for the people assigned to U.N. peace-keeping details. Those poor bastards are forced to operate under orders to not shoot until they are fired upon. Which explains why U.N. peace-keeping is only effective for peace that already exists: any belligerent bent on waging an attack will do so, nothwithstanding the blue-helmet speed-bump.

Kerry's speech offers the U.N. posture as worthy prescription for this country's security stance -- an astounding suggestion in this day and age.

Iran is pretty close to finishing their nuke. You think Kerry would support our doing something about that now? Or will he wait for the nuke to be deployed against us? And when it is deployed, after the smoke clears he will most certainly blame the current administration for inaction (unless it happens during his administration -- in which case he'll still find a way to blame Bush).

Looks like Israel will have to do the heavy lifting in Iran... Again. The political climate in this country has been so poisoned that it's inconceivable that the U.S. would find the fortitude to take necessary action.