Saturday, 10 May 2008

McCain emphasizes mil power as opposed to economic connectivity

LINK:
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/fareed_zakaria/2008/04/mccains_radical_foreign_policy.html


Before the guillotine fell on the campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton, her pleas to superdelegates to vote for her were largely based on the claim that she would be a stronger candidate vs. John McCain. This had to of amounted to simple politicking, as far as I can see, as John McCain offers negatives on every front. His emphasis on military might and his willing aggression could further strain our military, further ruin our credibility, and continue the destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq. Even more worrying is his lack of understanding of the global economic order, on full display in the above article by Fareed Zakaria. His proposal to boot Russia out of the G8 and exclude China would, Mr Zakaria says, "reverse a decades-old bipartisan American policy of integrating these two countries into the global order, a policy that began under Richard Nixon (with Beijing) and continued under Ronald Reagan (with Moscow)." Still think Mr Obama's proposed 5% capital gains tax increase sounds scary?

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