Kerry lays out his national security policy

1. new alliances with foreign countries;

You mean kiss their tails? This my be compromised by #4 depending on how he plans on getting OPEC to cooperate. You can’t make everyone happy, but he sure does try.

2. an updated military to meet terrorist threats;

Already being done by current administration.

3. the use of diplomacy, intelligence, economic power and "the appeal of our values and ideas" to keep the country safe;

Sounds great. One problem, the terrorists that want to kill us don’t care about any of that.

4. and freedom from dependence on oil from the Middle East.

Bush had a good plan for doing just this, and Kerry shot it down.

Kerry's answer to this was to make OPEC increase their output. I don’t see how that will reduce our dependency. It wil do just the opposite.

He is opposed to drilling in Alaska.

Also in this article;
“Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says the United States must be "strong without being stubborn" to defeat the terrorist threat. And he charged that President Bush has undermined American leadership by turning to force before he exhausted diplomacy in Iraq.”

Mr. Kerry, we tried diplomacy with Iraq for 10 years and it did not work. We also tried diplomacy in dealing with terrorist for 8 years and that resulted in 9/11. It is time for action.