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Heh, this is a funny read. It

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:16:30 +0000

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Heh, this is a funny read. It spells out conservative proclamations in relation to separation at home. Americans undercutting their president. Obama as "apologist". Proclamations of a weak America.

Is it time to tell the truth? Okay, then I'll do it. We are divided. Look around. That makes us (like any nation divided) weak. No one undercuts Obama. He undercuts US! He has yet to make a single constitutional choice in American policy (outside of what his cronies dictate as constitutional), foreign or otherwise. McCain merely points out truths that are hard to swallow, but the sooner we do swallow them, the sooner our embassy members will have less to fear. It's all about finding solutions, which in turn, is all about understanding these dark truths. Let's stop burying our heads in the sand, both proverbially and literally, and draft up public blogs that aim us toward seeing the light.

McCain's train is on the right road. The tough one. The road that leads toward solution. Get on board.

I don't know, couldn't you

Aaron Carine — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:06:40 +0000

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I don't know, couldn't you just as easily say that those of us who wanted out of Iraq and Afghanistan are "encouraging the enemy"?

GWB and his bloody campaign

NCD — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:30:50 +0000

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GWB and his bloody campaign in Iraq, and the current one in Afghanistan, haven't done much for us in the Muslim world or anywhere for that matter. Even in Iraq, GWB's 'Newest Democracy in the World' they hate the USA.

'Getting' the LA Muslim/Jew hating film maker, a Coptic Christian Egyptian immigrant & bank fraud felon Nakoula Nakoula would buy us a lot more love in the Islamic world right about now than 'Getting Saddam' ever did, it would be cheaper than invasions.

Maybe McCain can suggest a country to Surge 30,000 more troops? They could put Romney's five sons in the first wave, and McCain's 'yes, she is ready to be President' Sarah Palin could be put in as XO, in between her stints at Fox News.

On a serious note there may be a case for just closing embassies in many of these nations with deadly riots. The likes of Nakoula Nakoula, Pastor Jones and YouTube are not going away. If we need to have diplomacy, have it outside the country involved, for instance at the UN. Having bunker like embassies with scores of armed guards does not seem a solution to projecting what America represents.

The thing to keep in mind I

Elusive Trope — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 18:35:13 +0000

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The thing to keep in mind I believe is that those citizens who see McCain, Cheney et al. as reliable and trustworthy sources on foreign (and domestic) issues are already in the Romney camp. All the conservatives are doing is talking amongst themselves. Maybe if they had had some guts and discussed during the convention when they actually had an audience, this might be getting some traction beyond their conservative bubble.

The rest of the public I believe has a general sense that an American president has little at his disposal to keep the mobs from gathering, and no matter what kind of "leadership" he employs, the mob knows there is little or nothing he can do to disperse a mob once it has gathered.

Moreover, these folks outside the conservative bubble know he has devastated the terrorist leadership through the attack drones, and has done more than Bush ever did to lessen their strength to conduct attacks.

While the Republican attacks are indeed giving confidence to those who attack our political and military personnel abroad, this will back home only end up making them seem at best petty and worst un-American (yes, that dreaded word).

Romney says we need a large

Oxy Mora — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:42:23 +0000

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Romney says we need a large enough military to fight two conflicts. Just two? I thought the biggest threat was the kind of multiple and asymmetrical (is that redundant?) conflicts we are being faced with this weekend.

But we need fourteen more air

Oxy Mora — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:38:27 +0000

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But we need fourteen more air carriers and 100 K troops. And we never should have left Iraq, because the surge would have worked. Also, Iraq will most likely devolve into three countries---no shit.

One little problem, how do they sell this to the Ron Paul wing?

Jonathan Alter was on earlier

Richard Day — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:23:27 +0000

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Jonathan Alter was on earlier this week discussing the fun speech given by Cheney.

Cheney of course was telling his audience that everything is going to hell in a hand basket due to the terrible leadership of our current leader.

Alter just referred to the speech as clap trap and called Dicky a sour and embittered old man. hahahaha

McCain is just an embittered old man who calls for a new war in a new country every month or so. The Sudan, Syria, Iran, Iraq (again!) and whatever.

The problem is that Lindsey and McCain and Cheney and Bolton and a host of other close advisors to Mitt scare the living hell out of me.

There are serious and well-funded and well-covered and powerful people in this nation who would throw us into even more wars that will last forever and ever.

With the masters of war growing fat on our fears for 60 years; this country will never ever be at peace.

But it would be nice if we could stick to one war at a time for chrissakes.

Japan was miraculously transformed from a war machine with archaic laws into a thriving 20th century and 21st century modern nation.

I see no chance of this type of transformation in the Middle East or Northern Africa.

And I see no possibility that these war crazy politicians in our country will ever go away!

Weak? We control the skies

Michael Maiello — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:39:33 +0000

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Weak? We control the skies of the region where we deploy flying death robots to vaporize our enemies. Weak? Seriously?