Former Senator John Edwards makes a lot of promises; if it is a problem, he’ll create a government program to “fix” it. With him as the Commander-in-Chief, Osama bin Laden and the rest of al Qaeda will need good lawyers except he never says how he is going to get them into court:

Democrat John Edwards Wednesday repudiated the notion that there is a “global war on terror,” calling it an ideological doctrine advanced by the Bush administration that has strained American military resources and emboldened terrorists.

In a defense policy speech he planned to deliver at the Council on Foreign Relations, Edwards called the war on terror a “bumper sticker” slogan Bush had used to justify everything from abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison to the invasion of Iraq.

“We need a post-Bush, post-9/11, post-Iraq military that is mission focused on protecting Americans from 21st century threats, not misused for discredited ideological purposes,” Edwards said in remarks prepared for delivery. “By framing this as a war, we have walked right into the trap the terrorists have set—that we are engaged in some kind of clash of civilizations and a war on Islam.”

With John Edwards as President, ours would be a parade field military. That ought to scare our enemies into submission.