Hoagland's worldview of Kerry

On September 23rd, Jim Hoagland, writing in The Washington Post, "Worldviews That Are Worlds Apart," discussed our presidential candidates. Hoagland told us we could chose between "emotion vs. reason, instinct vs. intellect."

Over 200 years ago, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, taught us that Reason gives rise to no action. Thus, Hoagland is suggesting we must choose between a man of action and a man of dithering inaction.

Unlike Hoagland, most people do not need pollsters to tell them we "are vulnerable to events." Events require actions. Cicero's truism hold sway, "what is true of men is true of nations." Thus, America needs a president that will act in our collective best interests.

Now, my guess is: Hoagland is pulling for "the pragmatist and traditionalist on foreign policy," since Plato taught us likes attract likes.

Hoagland tells us Kerry would "return to established patterns of cooperation and coerced behavior." We've seen that pattern: thousands of innocent Americans slain in the United States and abroad. A fine pattern, indeed.

When the WTC crumbled, my emotions and instincts told me an unnamed foe declared war on my family. I do not want to "reason" with those killers, I want them dead!!

And that requires a Man of Action, not a Man of Intellect and Reason.