The John Kerry Post of the Day

My latest discovery about my favorite cheese-eating surrendermonkey-looking Ketchup King cum Presidential candidate:

The L.A. Times has an article today that pretty much destroys Kerry's secret plan for bringing allies in to help out in Iraq:

Many allied countries may welcome a new team in Washington after years of
friction with the Bush administration. But foreign leaders are making it clear
they don't want to add enough of their own troops to allow U.S. forces to scale
back to a minority share in Iraq, as Kerry has proposed.

Allies say they are ready to consider further financial aid and other help
for the fragile new Iraqi government. But some officials overseas already are
fretting about Kerry's talk of burden-shifting.

"Some Europeans are rather concerned that Mr. Kerry might have expectations
for relief [from abroad] that are going to be hard to meet," said one senior
European diplomat in a statement echoed in several capitals.

In an interview with The Times last week, Kerry said that by building up
international support, it would be a "reasonable goal" to replace most U.S.
troops in Iraq with foreign forces within his first term. There are now about
140,000 U.S. troops stationed there, or 88% of a total international force of
about 160,000.

In the last several days, Kerry has begun arguing that he could
substantially reduce the number of U.S. troops within the first six months of a
Kerry administration. In an interview with National Public Radio on Friday,
Kerry said: "I believe that within a year from now, we could significantly
reduce American forces in Iraq, and that's my plan." The proposal could be
accomplished by increasing the number of foreign troops and boosting the size of
the Iraqi security force, Kerry aides say.

Yet some key countries have already ruled out providing troops, and others
are badly strained from the deployments they have already made.The French and
German governments have made clear that sending troops is out of the question.
British officials have made no such categorical statement, but they have
expressed concern that their troops are overstretched.

Although Japan has supplied a 550-member noncombat force as a symbol of its
international commitment, analysts there see little chance the nation would
agree to send more.Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, Andrei Denisov,
ruled out a commitment of troops. "We are not going to send anybody there, and
that's all there is to say," Denisov said."

From the major European countries, there's simply not a lot of available
troops out there, for both practical and political reasons," said Christopher
Makins, president of the Atlantic Council of the United States, which supports
U.S. engagement abroad. Many allied countries have a limited number of troops
suitable for the Iraq mission, and most of those are already deployed on other
missions, including in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Africa, Makins said.

Dana Allin of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London
said, "I think there's no question, in general, you'll find it easier to get
cooperation from allies if there is a new [U.S.] administration." But Allin
added that if new troops were to be sent to Iraq "it's unclear where they would
come from."

Kerry has at times said he would particularly like to bring in troops from
Arab countries. But diplomats, including those from Arab nations, say they
consider the scenario unlikely. The Iraqi interim government has for months
excluded the possibility of any peacekeeping troops coming from immediate
neighbors, in part because the Iraqi people would be suspicious of neighbors'
intentions.

What I love are the opinions that cooperation would be easier with foreign governments, but we still wouldn't get any troops. What would they send us? Get-well cards?

In other words, if Kerry is elected, the world will be friendlier. They won't help us, but they'll smile at us.

And the left makes fun of the nations who joined the coalition. At least they sent troops. Our great allies in Germany and France would lend us their moral support. Since they're morally bankrupt, that should be exceedingly helpful.