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To: Sdgla who wrote (93139)	11/3/2008 12:27:37 AM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) of 541375

Foreign policy. Foreign policy is easy. McCain thinks you can use conventional military force to "win" wars where winning the war means changing the course of another nation's people, including changing their culture. He thinks "we're" winning in Iraq, and that we can win. He thinks, as does the current Israeli government, that you can shoot into the village and kill more terrorists than you create. He doesn't believe in giving an inch and he's simply wrong...wrong from a historical point of view and wrong from a logical point of view. Obama understands that other cultures will come to their own wisdom and their own mores gradually and that you cannot force such changes at the point of a gun. Obama understands that if you shoot into the village you're likely to miss the terrorist and create a lot more people willing to die for a cause...the cause of killing your people. Obama is willing to use force in self defense, a situation where the mission is ALWAYS justified and the mission is always doable, and where the rest of the world will not feel threatened by our actions and will not continue to forge military and economic alliances that threaten our interests. Obama is willing to talk to rogue nations and to use diplomatic and economic tools of persuasion to create incentives and disincentives that favor our interests. Obama is the future. McCain is the discredited past. Ed

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