The blogger Hesiod advised John Kerry this past Monday:
He must make a public statement about the Spanish elections, in which asks Prime Minister Zapatero to hold off on pulling Spain's troops out of Iraq.
He must say to the new Prime Minister that once he is President, he will get that UN mandate, and that he wants Spain to be an important part of the coalition to stabilize Iraq, and make sure freedom takes root there.
On Wednesday, Kerry did that:
"If we had built a true coalition, they would not have to fight almost alone -- and Americans would not have to bear almost all the costs in Iraq," he said. "At times, conflict comes, and the decision must be made. For a president the decision may be lonely, but that does not mean that America should go it alone."
Kerry called on new Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to reconsider his decision to pull Spanish troops out of Iraq, saying he should "send a message that terrorists cannot win by their acts of terror."
Zapatero is extremely unlikely to respond to such calls since Kerry obviously won't be President until next January at the earliest. But it makes good political sense for Kerry to make the appeal.
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