Liberals do nothing but criticize. They have no solutions, only empty rhetoric that they think will help catapault one of them to the presidency. Take Delaware Senator Joe Biden.

In a speech for the National Press Club, he put forth the following 4 part campaign strategy to keep America safer:

1). He would implement the recommendations of the 9/11 commission. He would accomplish this by “taking back” tax cuts for people who make over a million dollars a year. He would then place this money in a dedicated Homeland Security Trust Fund to be used to increase security.

First, The Bush Administration is attempting to implement many of those proposals, already. Unfortunately due to the two-party system, no matter which party rents the White House, they’ll have to fight the other to try and implement any of the recommendations in the commission’s report.

Secondly, the federal government took the “trust” out of “Trust Fund” long ago. The Social Security Trust Fund was supposed be be dedicated for the nation’s retirees and was their money, but the government has systematically pilfered it into insolvency for 30 years.

Thirdly, with liberals, it’s always OK to shrink the wealth of millionaires, but never the size or budget of the government behemoth.

2). He would take the focus off of preemptive military strikes and instead prevent potential threats to the US.

Presumably, by choosing prevention over preemption, one can assume that you wouldn’t attack first, but would instead prevent them from attacking you by using law enforcement efforts.  Prevention would require robust measures such as tight borders, profiling, espionage, surveillance, more pressure on foreign governments to cooperate, and Americans arming themselves to prepare for the coming onsolaught - all things that liberals repeatedly prove they don’t have the stomach for.

Furthermore, imagine if you will, what would happen, if you put all of your eggs in the prevention “basket”, and you’re wrong. Americans are going to die. I’ll stick with preemption.

3). He would build a network of like-minded countries that pool resources, ideas, information and power.

Like the Bush Administration is doing with The United Kingdom, Australia, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, the UN, NATO, the UAE and numerous others?

4). Finally, he wold develop what he refers to as “institutions of democracy”- political parties, an independent media and judiciary, and of course labor unions in the Middle East.

There is growing demand in the Muslim world for Sharia law, which is essentially, an eye for an eye.

Conversion to Christianity is punishable by death in much of the Muslim world to this day. But, according to Senator Biden, we are going to export our brand of democratic “institutions” to the entire Middle East?

Overall, this sounds an awful lot like the current President’s policy. It wouldn’t be the first time Biden “borrowed” someone else’s idea. It is widely known that when he ran for President in 1988 that he had to bow out because he plagiarized a campaign speech that was written by a British politician without giving him credit.

There is absolutely nothing new here, other than the revelation that Senator Biden would forego preemptive military strikes abroad in favor of class warfare here at home. That makes for a more divided country and a weaker, not stronger defense.