"While vehemently criticising the Bush administration for its unilateralism, he has sought to distance himself from his Democratic rival Howard Dean, who has argued that the US should not have gone into Iraq without UN security council authorisation.
Mr Dean's position would permit a veto over US foreign policy, ceding the responsibility for defending the US to someone else, Mr Kerry argued in a speech at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, last December.
"To follow the path that Howard Dean seems to prefer is to embrace a 'Simon says' foreign policy where America only moves if others move first," Mr Kerry said. "And that is just as wrong as George Bush's policy of schoolyard taunts and cowboy swagger."
Instead, Mr Kerry advocated a "third way" in foreign policy. What the US needed, he said, was a "third path in foreign policy - a bold progressive internationalism - backed by undoubted military might".
Should he win the Democratic nomination, it will be interesting to see how this third way in foreign policy, which is reminiscent of Bill Clinton's "triangulation" in domestic policy, will survive Republican scrutiny. " Full "http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1140907,00.html"