After watching the debate on foreign policy between McCain and Obama I felt a multitude of different reactions.
I don’t think McCain won on foreign policy at all. All he has done is to say he will be pursuing the same sort of foreign policy that the Bush administration has pursued and which has brought us to the situation we are in now. I thought he came across as trying to be the elder statesman who lectures the young upstart. If this is his position it is a bad one, because we do need change and we need it in a desperate way.
I think Obama made some points on foreign policy when he said that he’d go after the terrorists when a host country couldn’t or wouldn’t do it. When McCain said "you don’t say that out loud" he was wrong. You definitely do say it out loud because it sends a message to those countries that says, you had better do something about the terrorists lurking in your country or we will. That puts them on notice. It isn’t saying, we are going to invade your country, just that we will take whatever action is needed to protect ourselves and others.
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