Barack vs. Hilary
I’ve been trying to stay abreast of the news at home, although I admittedly don’t do a very good job of it. Of course, I didn’t do a great job of it when I was still there, but that’s beside the point. I’ve read some about the tussle between Barack and Hilary over national security, and I don’t particularly like what I see. I read this article today, and it really scares me that these are our two mostly likely candidates for president.
According to the article, Barack wants to withdraw from Iraq, send more troops to Afghanistan and invade Pakistan. Maybe invade isn’t the right word there. It isn’t clear what level of troop commitment he is looking to make there. Still though, do we really need to attack another country? I just don’t see the point of this. Why can’t we have a leader that realizes you can’t fight a war of ideals with bullets and bombs?
Barack also stated that he would never use a nuclear weapon against terrorists in Afghanistan or Pakistan, and Hilary pounced on it say, “‘I don’t believe any president should make blanket statements with the regard to use or nonuse’ of nukes”. Well I don’t see why they shouldn’t make a blanket statement about the use of nukes. What possible scenario can she envision in which it would be a good idea to drop a nuclear weapon on terrorists in either of those countries?
Politics depress me.
jared said:
Aug 05, 07 at 5:06 pmi don’t like hilary at all. i haven’t for quite some time. at the same time, yeah i don’t know that going into pakistan would be the thing to do. in any case, the “fighting” between barack and hilary has been blown way out of proportion in the media. they were actually talking about that just the other day on the daily show, and it was totally true.
in my opinion, the government in the us is just crazy. alberto gonzalez is a corrupt fuck, the house just approved an extension to the wireless wiretapping program, etc. like you said, it just depresses me.
on the other hand, it’s ironic that you would chastise barack and hilary about invading other countries despite bush having done it himself. the us had never actually started a war until he came into power…
scott said:
Aug 06, 07 at 5:21 amAh….I miss the Daily Show.
I don’t really see it as ironic that I chastise Barack and Hilary for being like Bush. That’s kind of my point, they claim they are going to change things, and yet they act an awful lot like him. Obviously, we need a change, and I don’t see them being all that different.
I frankly haven’t seen a single candidate that looks like that looks even slightly presidential.
kyle said:
Aug 06, 07 at 10:45 amI haven’t been paying nearly as much attention as what I should be to the debates, etc. I wonder how many Americans are thinking, “I don’t care who our next president is, because a turd sandwich could do better than this one.” That could lead to a lot of uninformed voters.