Two Americas

John Kerry and John Edwards have been talking about Two Americas since the Democratic primary. Kerry hit the theme again at his speech before the NAACP today:

W.E.B. Du Bois talked about the two Americas years ago. He called it "a nation within a nation." John Edwards and I have talked about that divide for many years now.

He's right. There are Two Americas. There are the adults and there are the children. Adults realize that, while they may not always be pleasant, tough decisions have to be made for the sake of the country. Children live in idyllic worlds where pretending and name-calling are part of daily life. So who would you rather have run the country: The adults who stand up and deal with threats before they do harm or the children who chose to pretend it doesn't exist?

George Miller over at London Calling has a much more eloquent way of making this point in his analysis of the British Intelligence report that cleared Tony Blair:

"We need to defend our democracies and leave moral posturing to the French and the Bishops. We need to measure the question of going to war with Iraq by a politically pragmatic yardstick. By all means we need to question whether George Bush is a better strategist than John Kerry. We need to ask whether Blair’s spinning isn’t corrosive of trust in government itself. But we also need to stop acting like teenagers and remember that one of the signs of adulthood is an ability to discern between the lesser of two evils."

(Hat Tip: HobbsOnline)
 
UPDATE: These are the types of situations that we need to be adults about and address before it is too late.
 
(Hat Tip: Instapundit