It seems Obama is sounding tougher on terror supposedly further "moving to the center." From a CNN interview to be aired Sunday afternoon:
In an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee said bin Laden's actions have justified capital punishment.
"If he was captured alive, then we would make a decision to bring the full weight of not only U.S. justice, but world justice down on him," Obama said during the interview, the entirety of which is set to air Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.
Gee...Europe's justice, for example, doesn't agree with capital punishment(afaik.) Maybe he has the brilliant idea to implement the U.S.' or the Saudi Arabia's death penalty first and life sentences of the liberal world in Laden's memory later.
In the wide-ranging interview, the Illinois senator also criticized Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai for failing to bring order to his country.
As expected a RNC Spokesman throws ad hominems at Obama, for his Afghan stance:
"Barack Obama had no interest in Afghanistan until he started running for president. Obama has never visited Afghanistan to meet our allies on the ground, yet he is audacious enough to assert that President Karzai has ‘not gotten out of the bunker..."
"Obama’s words are naively out-of-touch with reality and offensive to America’s allies. Considering Obama’s negligent leadership of the Senate subcommittee charged with overseeing the NATO mission in Afghanistan, Obama has no credibility discussing Afghanistan."
Indeed, the Afghanistan-Pakistan situation has to be fixed. The war in Iraq has been initiated under questionable circumstances. It has been drawn on far too long. The United States has used its military in a much too liberal fashion in many instances. The word "Patriotism" has been abused. This has to end.
But there is also another element that is taking advantage of these unfortunate situations. It is my belief that there will always be another tyrant "waiting in the wings" to exert his influence towards a mindless drive for power and control over a totalitarian government. The upcoming demagogue desiring limitless control of mass populations is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran. This is a man who exemplifies the characteristics of an Adolf Hitler and he is extremely dangerous.
We need a leader who realizes how dangerous this President of Iran is and a leader who is willing to deal with him as such. The kind of irrationality displayed by Ahmadinejad must be dealt with as such. This madman cannot be dealt with by token "peace talks". He won't be listening!