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* John Kerry has molted again. Now that the Democratic primaries are over, he is sounding so hawkish that the Bush campaign is accusing him of becoming the "me-too" candidate. He has always been--it's just that now he is aping George Bush rather than Howard Dean. The four broad goals set out in his major national-security address are unobjectionable-sounding: leading "a new era of alliances"; modernizing the military; marshaling diplomatic, economic, and moral power, in addition to America's military might; and achieving energy independence. In the diplomatic arena, we are all in favor of alliances, but Kerry has been part of the establishment issuing knee-jerk pronouncements on the need to preserve old alliances at all costs, i.e., give an ill-intentioned France a veto over America's Iraq policy. Kerry and the Democrats have yet to realize that more separates France from the United States than Bush's cowboy mannerisms. When Kerry talks of ...