Kerry's Support

John Kerry and his campaign have stated on a number of occasions that foreign leaders support him over President Bush in this election. Having refused to name those leaders, we are left to judge for ourselves who those leaders could be. Amir Taheri seems to have discovered one source of that foreign support - the Arab world.

Since almost all Arab regimes could be described as despotic, it is clear that they all feel targeted by Bush's calls for reform and democratization.

Bush has committed himself to changing Washington's 60-year-old policy of supporting the status quo in the region. It is, therefore, no surprise that all regimes in the region feel threatened to some degree. Their hope is that under a President Kerry, the United States would abandon Bush's "adventurous attempt to remould the region."

And this is exactly the reason why Bush must win. A Kerry victory will return us to the pre-9/11 policies of appeasement and status-quo, policies that we can not afford if we are to face down and triumph over Islamofascism.