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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Obama Jumpstarting National Security Posture

A promising start.

"Tough talk is not a substitute for sound judgment."



What do you think he ought to add?

hummm...

Well, he's got the attack, the Iraq positioning, and a nice tie-in with the politics of division. How would you compare this with the tightly-worded broadsides that McCain has sent about Hope and so forth? Favorably, unfavorably? Just a different style?

Arguably, he needs to fill out the "core" elements of a broader policy; now, before it turns into call-and-response.

Compare McCain's webpage on National Security with Obama's webpage. Then, when you look at Hillary's approach, Paglia's nonsense about workaholics comes into the laughable perspective that it is (even admitting that this piece blurs the line between action-items and policy).

Last, did you notice that John McCain's National Security webpage doesn't use the word "diplomacy" at all and mentions "alliance" only once?
If you had nothing else but these "resumes", which would you choose?



Last, here's John in a nutshell:

As President, John McCain will take it as his most sacred responsibility to keep America free, safe, and strong - an abiding beacon of freedom and hope to the world.


Why is that message so appealing? If someone offers you the benefits of "safe, strong, and free" for nothing except the asking, ...

Last, did you notice that John McCain's National Security webpage doesn't use the word "diplomacy" at all and mentions "alliance" only once?

P.S. YOUR TAX BILL IS GOING WAY UP TO KEEP FREEDOM FREE

p.s. We are committed to bringing the troops home, but we are also building up forces (to fight the last war nation-building exercise properly?):

"We must maintain our overwhelming conventional advantage – and I will. We also need to increase the size of our ground forces by 65,000 soldiers and 27,000 marines to relieve the strain on our troops, and to increase our capacity to put boots on the ground. - Barack Obama, March 11, 2008


A bigger standing army to pay for, an ongoing war that naturally creates all kinds of inflation in military costs (healthcare, salary, recruitment, equipment, etc.).