[PBzeer]

After reading Biden's remarks from last night, I am somewhat confused. His claim, that the US is less secure and more isolated due to the Bush foreign policy of the past 8 years, leaves me wondering just how we can be more secure and less isolated.

Are we to return to the foreign policies of the Clinton years, that made 9/11 possible? Years of repeated attacks upon and against America? And if not, then what changes would be made?

How are we to become more secure, without further erosions of the personal freedoms that are already decried by these self-same people?

How are we to become less isolated, by withdrawing inward? But, more to the point, just who are we so isolated from?

What is their plan, and where is it?

Can it be the special jail cells built for their convention? Or arresting people for taking pictures they don't want seen? Is that part of their plan?

Do they believe that words will shield us from guns and bombs? Do they believe that the relentless and rabid fanaticism of radical Islam will be stilled by gestures, rather than deeds? That America, and the world will somehow be safer by appeasement, rather than by standing firm? Do they believe that a UN that is ignored at will, by those who wish us harm, should be our defense? Do they believe that some ethereal cloud of world approval is more important than the protection of our own interests? Are we to believe that it is the US that is the real threat to world peace? Are we to believe that the US stands on the same or lower moral ground than Iran, Zimbawia, or Mynamar?