(The following was borrowed from Salon.com which borrowed it from the Weekly Standard's blog.)A few days ago, John McCain participated in a blogger conference call. During that call McCain was questioned "about recent positive comments a top Hamas advisor made about Barack Obama." Here's how McCain responded:
"All I can tell you is that I think it's very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States ... I think that people should understand that I will be Hamas' worst nightmare... If Sen. Obama is favored by Hamas I think people can make judgments accordingly."
Alex Koppelman says that McCain may be talking tough, "but -- no matter what that advisor had to say about Obama -- it's tough talk at odds with reality. American foreign policy under President Bush, which McCain has largely embraced, has been anything but a nightmare for Hamas. It's been a dream, actually."
Koppelman then quotes the following from David Rose writing in Vanity Fair:
"According to [Muhammed Dahlan, Mahmoud Abbas' former national security advisor], it was Bush who had pushed legislative elections in the Palestinian territories in January 2006, despite warnings that Fatah was not ready. After Hamas -- whose 1998 charter committed it to the goal of driving Israel into the sea -- won control of the parliament, Bush made another, deadlier miscalculation.
"Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents, since corroborated by sources in the U.S. and Palestine, which lay bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush and implemented by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Deputy National Security adviser Elliott Abrams, to provoke a Palestinian civil war. The plan was for forces led by Dahlan, and armed with new weapons supplied at America's behest, to give Fatah the muscle it needed to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power. (The State Department declined to comment.)
"But the secret plan backfired, resulting in a further setback for American foreign policy under Bush. Instead of driving its enemies out of power, the U.S.-backed Fatah fighters inadvertently provoked Hamas to seize total control of Gaza."
Vote for McCain aka Bush III if you want more of the same.
1 comment:
The facts are that Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Quida are stronger than before and we have a weaker military due to a war against the wrong guy at the wrong time. Osama is still around and apparently will be after Bush has retired to his ranch. Lebanon is still in trouble; Iran is a bigger problem than before; Syria is still causing trouble; Israel is in danger still; the Arab world is worried about terrorism too; our economy is linked to oil still and no end is in sight.
I am not convinced that the Bush policies have made us safer or even more capable of fighting unless we can rebuild our military quickly and find a means of manufacturing our own military needs here in the USA without dependence upon foreign funding.
I think we will feel safer when our leaders kids are willing to join the military as a sign that they see the danger we are in.
Bob Poris
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