The thought that small towns are more american than big cities is kind of a joke. Sex drugs and rock and roll are prevalent in small towns just as much as cities. It's just a little more hidden in small towns which makes it all the more dangerous. Shit, I'm from the religious state of Utah, I lived in a city and a small town. Either way, I'm about as anti-american as you can get without being a total anarchist(those anarchy days are behind me now). I guess I'm just some crazy socialist now. I support Obama's tax cuts so, I'm a socialist. Not like Bush, who has put American taxpayer money into the banking system. No way is that socialism, just a different type capitalism, right? The markets will fix themselves, except when they can't, in which case, pour everyone's money into it, right? Sure! Thanks for the vote for that bailout McCain/Obama/Biden, very socialistic of ya!
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THE WAR ON TERROR
Here are my reasons for supporting Barack Obama as related to foreign policy and war. Obama is very diplomatic in his approach. Unlike warmongering McCain, who I can see repeating Bush's quote to the terrorists to "Bring 'em On!"
Obama is for cooperating with other nations when dealing with a crisis. He wants to put more into U.S. intelligence gathering. He does have a very diplomatic touch.
He wants to end the Iraq war, which he rightly describes as "the main propaganda tool for Al Qaida", responsibly. Move troops to focus on the Afganistan-Pakistan border, where a lot of Al Qaida's main planning is coming from. Now, if you watched the debates, you will remember when McCain called Obama "naive" for speaking out loud about doing air strikes on suspected targets in Pakistan, he said you're not supposed to talk about that when Pakistani leaders could hear you. That is totally bogus, look at the news that has been coming out of Pakistan. Bush has been doing what McCain agrees with, doing air strikes in Pakistani territory without anyone's knowledge. What has came of it? The people of that country are MAD AS HELL about us just moving right into their territory. They are wondering where we get the nerve to just bomb at will. I don't think there would be as much of an outrage (organized outrage) if there was some knowledge beforehand that we might move in on such targets, instead of outright denying it.
Obama is also planning foreign aid for spending money in Islamic countries to build schools and other training programs as alternatives to the radical Muslim training grounds that exist now to train extremists and terrorists. Obama is also promising to close Gitmo and actually give those detainees a trial. (though, if they didn't hate America before, I'm sure they do by now)
Now, Barack Obama is naive in some aspects of foreign affairs I believe. Most importantly about Iran. He seems to think that we can work through the problems and find a common ground there. Sorry, there is no common ground, except that their democracy is as much a farce as ours. We NEED to deal with Iranian threats to Israel and Iraq. McCain is wrong in saying the central front of the War on Terror is Iraq, and Obama is wrong in saying the central front is in Afganistan and Pakistan. IRAN is the central front of the War on Terror.
We need a strong arm when dealing with them. In the second presidential debate, a question was asked: If Iran attacked Israel, would you come to Israel's aid and attack Iran?
Obama's response:
We cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. It would be a game-changer in the region. Not only would it threaten Israel, our strongest ally in the region and one of our strongest allies in the world, but it would also create a possibility of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists.
And so it's unacceptable. And I will do everything that's required to prevent it.
And we will never take military options off the table. And it is important that we don't provide veto power to the United Nations or anyone else in acting in our interests.
It is important, though, for us to use all the tools at our disposal to prevent the scenario where we've got to make those kinds of choices. And that's why I have consistently said that, if we can work more effectively with other countries diplomatically to tighten sanctions on Iran, if we can reduce our energy consumption through alternative energy, so that Iran has less money.......... BLAH BLAH BLAH
Get fucking serious man! Just say, "We need to beat the living shit out of them." You can't talk your way through this bullshit while Israel burns. That is the only real ally we have in the region, even if they provoked some attack, we need to retaliate against Iranian forces. Simply put, Israel is a US state as far as those in the middle east(and the world) are concerned. An attack on Israel is an attack on the USA. That will be their way to test us. It's bullshit to say "Blah blah, diplomatic solutions blah blah sanctions" We need to smack them down!
We need to act on threats that Iran poses to both Israel and Iraq. We need to look into possible Iranian influences in Afghanistan. We need some troops to stay in Iraq for border security at the Iraq/Iran border. Al Qaida may not be prevalent in Iran, but it is still an extremist muslim state. No matter what president they have, they are really a religious state, ruled by religious leaders we don't really know anything about. Terrorism is just boiling there.
Obama is wise in listening to reason, and using his brain. But he needs to grow his nuts a little more.
Do you agree? Leave me a comment.
One more point. When former secretary of state Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama, McCain came back saying he was endorsed by 5 other former secretaries of state (Kissinger, Baker, Haig, Eagleburger, Shultz). The problem with that, ALL THOSE SECRETARIES OF STATE WERE IN OFFICE DURING THE COLD WAR! McCain's whole world philosophy revolves around the Cold War. Probably burned in his brain from Vietnam. He is so stuck in the fucking past, and the old ass secretaries of state are also still stuck in the Cold War state of mind. Endless, mindless war, we need McCain!
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