Posted by
reasonmclucus on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 5:27:40 PM
I wasted another evening on Tuesday watching one of the media events
ignorant journalists insist on misrepresenting as debates. The
candidates repeated the same cliches they used in their first debate.
Once again Sen. Barack Obama demonstrated that he is dangerously
ignorant in the area of foreign policy and the War on Terror. Once
again journalists ignored his mistake.
Obama. is apparently incapable of understanding the fact that sending
military forces into another country without permission is an
invasion. It doesn't matter why the troops enter the country, it is
still an act of war. The fact that Osama bin Laden might be in
Pakistan doesn't mean the U.S. can invade Pakistan without fear of
retaliation -- and Pakistan most definitely does have nuclear weapons.
Obama doesn't understand the volatility of the situation in Pakistan.
The country has been on the brink of a civil war for many years and its
government could fall at any time. An American invasion would force
the government to declare war on the U.S. to try to keep the country
united. The first action in that war might be a nuclear attack that
would wipe out our forces in the Middle East.
Obama's obsession with bin Laden and Afghanistan indicates he doesn't
understand the War on Terror. This war isn't a traditional war against
an enemy with a geographic base.
Al Qaeda can function without bin Laden and might even benefit if the
United States killed or captured him. Others are available to head al
Qaeda if something happens to bin Laden.
Death at the hands of the U.S. would make bin Laden a martyr and
violent Muslims would rally to avenge his death. Capture of bin
Laden would provoke efforts to capture Americans any where in the world
in an attempt to obtain hostages to trade for him.
Al Qaeda doesn't have a fixed location that it has to defend. If
pushed out of one area, al Qaeda will move to some other area with a
large Muslem population. If the U.S. leaves Iraq before the Iraqis
are able to maintain stablity in the country, al Qaeda will move in
and use Iraq as a base.
It is no longer important whether or not Iraq should have become a
battleground in the War on Terror. The fact is that Iraq is a
battleground in the War on Terror and we cannot afford to turn that
battleground over to al Qaeda.