Obama-The Anti-American Candidate
After much posturing overseas where candidate Obama attempted to alleviate concerns about his inexperience and reassure key voter blocks of this suitability for office, it is even more clear now that he is completely unfit for the Presidency. Yes, he tries to talk tough about Afghanistan and even asks Germany to send more troops, but at the cost of taking out troops from Iraq. In the view of Obama and his simple-minded voters (and even potential voters), the real war on terror is in Afghanistan where Osama and his gang are located. Of course this proposal exemplies the classic phrase “simple, plausible and wrong.”
The bottom line is that Afganistan is a basket case of a country and possibly beyond repair. The US did not wreck the country, the Soviets and the Taliban did most of the work. If we were to invest more money there it would be largely wasted even if we get the big dudes of Al Queda as a result. On top of that Afghanistan just isn’t as strategic as Iraq. It has no oil and its economy barely registers in the global scene unless you’re talking about heroin trafficking. Iraq on the other hand is vital, with tremendous oil resources and a large middle-class, there is hope for Iraq. If the country were to become a stable democracy with long-term US military bases, the entire world would be better off, and the United States would have a vital ally in the Middle East. On top of that, the presence of US forces on the Persian Gulf would provide for much needed stability in oil shipments, do much to keep the maniacal Iranian President in line and reduce the need for our current dysfunctional relationship with Saudi Arabia, a nation with complete hostility to Western values.
However, none of this is of importance to Obama, whose misty-eyed idealism prevents him from giving priority to American interests. Sure it would be nice to limit US military involvement to only conflicts approved of by Europe and with International forces in places like Afghanistan and Darfur, Sudan, but these conflicts are not as critical to the future of the world as the Middle-East and Iraq. Barack Obama simply has no clue about where US interests lie or even worse, simply does not care what is best for American global economic and military power.
The large commitment of troops to Iraq versus Afganistan and other places accurately reflects our national interest, in spite of the high costs of maintaining our presence in Iraq. That in short is why McCain is right and Obama is wrong.
Tags: Afghanistan, Foriegn Policy, Iraq, Obama
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