Obama Campaign Preparing to Confront McCain on National Security
Domestic issues have been the focus of the convention so far
DENVER—Barack Obama and the Democrats won't just be attacking Republican presidential candidate John McCain this fall over domestic issues, which many party leaders emphasized in speeches to their national convention Tuesday. They are also preparing to confront McCain at his strong point—national security.
An immediate flash point will be Russia and how to deal with Moscow's invasion of Georgia. McCain, a long-time specialist in international affairs, sees the conflict in black and white, while it is better viewed in shades of gray, Obama advisers say.
America won't succeed in attaining its objectives with "empty" rhetoric and by trying to "put our finger in Russia's eye," which a senior Obama aide says McCain is doing because he speaks of Russia as if it were "the same old Soviet Union." Adds the Obama adviser: "It isn't good vs. evil."
The answer is to work with America's allies in Europe and NATO to come up with a better strategy. "This is not a problem we can face alone," the adviser says, noting that Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate, is "a pragmatist" who will find a better way of dealing with Moscow than the Bush administration.
"The fact we now are witnessing a resurgent Russia that surprised the administration is testament to the failure of the current administration," says a senior Obama adviser. The adviser added: "We are not as well positioned as we ought to be" to discourage such behavior because the Bush administration has not worked well with allies to present a united front over the years, and because the U.S. military is over-stretched and not as much of a deterrent as it used to be.
On Tuesday, President Bush urged Russia to reconsider what he called its "irresponsible decision" to give diplomatic recognition to two breakaway Georgian provinces, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Russia invaded Georgia earlier this month in a territorial dispute over those areas.
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ISRAEL WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE BY NEMESIS
Judeofascist Israel, being of negative net military and economic value to America, England, France, Russia, and China risks surprise retaliatory nuclear annihilation by Russia and China, if it initiates total war on any of its wealthy Middle Eastern neighbors, such as Iran, who are immensely valuable for their cultural contributions and great wealth in oil. And, by popular agreement of the United Nations of the World, the World would be happier and safer with Israel transformed into star dust in Holocaust III.
Israel’s net negative value is derived from its arsenal of 150 nuclear missiles, and notorious Marxist practice of systematically inciting people to hate and kill one another, nationally and inter-nationally, over cunningly fabricated irreconcilable economic or religious differences. Familiar historical examples are the catastrophically disastrous Russian, German, and Spanish Marxist revolutions; and most recently, the American unprovoked illegal bombing and occupation of Iraq, which sacrificed over a trillion dollars and 4,000 lives for the sole benefit of Israel.
Now, Israel and its supporting Diaspora are notoriously engaged in fanatically desperate propaganda efforts to provoke total war between the patriotic Christian American and Muslim Iranian peoples. But they are failing to incite enough fear and hatred to start a war, because of increasingly popular recognition that they are the common enemy of these Iran and the nuclear superpowers.
The Israeli People, from their long exposure to European democratic and Christian culture, know perfectly well the moral and ethical rules that they must inevitably follow to secure their own survival. Every injustice that they have committed against their neighbors, in killing innocent civilians and robbing them of their infrastructure and land, must be fully addressed with apologies and monetary compensation. All of the incessant wailing, ranting, propaganda, and bribery by the condemned People of Israel are to no avail. Inevitably, Nemesis shall have her retribution, with Israel dead or alive.
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