| Submitted by: | knite |
| Date: | 11 / 03 / 2008 |
| Category: | Mixed Topics |
| Words | Pages: | 1542 | 7 |
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The 21st century is not even a decade old and yet already the hope for an era of peace and prosperity that greeted its dawning has been squandered. It is a challenge and opportunity for the man who succeeds President Bush. Financial markets that rose to incredible heights without an ethical foundation have brought the economy to the brink of collapse. Tyrants emboldened by the often heavy-handed and inept foreign policy of the Bush administration have established rogue regimes in every corner of the world to threaten U.S. interests and security. During these perilous times, the nation needs an experienced, proven leader in the White House. Senator John McCain is best equipped for the job. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing the limits of revanchism[1]. The case for McCain is straightforward.
Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who's been cramming on these issues for the past year, who's never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as "the tragedy of 9/11,"[2] a term more appropriate for a bus accident. Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory.
There's just no comparison. Obama's own running mate warned that Obama's youth and inexperience would invite a crisis -- indeed a crisis "generated" precisely to test him[3]
And how will he pass it? Well, how has...
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