Sunday, October 12, 2008
Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Sen. McCain advocates that Iraq is the central front against terrorism, and Iraq is to be consider as a pawn of Iran. He believes that the U.S. should support the Government of Iraq to become capable of governing itself. McCain anticipates if U.S. pull out troops in Iraq, then it will affect America in the future with a wider and far costlier war. Counterinsurgency is Sen. McCain's main objective to defeat them and win a war against terrorism. McCain and also Sen. Obama believes that the U.S. should be more aggressive towards Iran and Syria due to their behavior and support of terrorism. Sen. Obama wants to end the war in Iraq by withdrawing troops with the safest way and fastest ways as possible. After that, Obama plans to have a residual force that will conduct and fights against Al Qaeda in Iraq and train the Iraqi security forces to battle to opposition. I believe the two candidates has the same plan direction but I also believe that McCain wants to succeed in the Middle East. The war in Iraq already happened and is too late to withdraw, for else the American history repeats the lost to the Vietnam War.
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I suspect that you are right that there is really less difference in what McCain and Obama would do in Iraq than their campaign rhetoric suggests. My understanding is that Obama has pledged that there would be no permanent American military instilations in Iraw while McCain has not. But in the short run, I'm not sure the differences would be very great.
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