Kerry’s speech at Temple University

The noble Jim Geraghty has a good critique of Kerry’s speech at Temple University. It’s not too bad as far as Kerry’s speeches go, and in it Kerry (finally) showed some understanding of the threat the U.S. faces. Yet it is a lot of talk and few concrete plans. For example, Kerry wants to get tough with the Saudis and says that he will reduce our dependency on Mideast oil. Sounds good, but how? Cheap alternative energy won’t be widely available for a long time, and Kerry’s own party (and he himself too, I suppose) is opposed to more domestic drilling. Kerry runs into a similar problem with securing borders. He rightly points out that our borders are porous, yet it is his party’s ideology that is at odds with the actions required for securing them. Unless the Demos realize how much their beliefs are detached from reality, I don’t see any possibility of their doing a better job at anything than the Republicans (of whom I have many complaints, but that’s a story for another day).