Week 2 Post 2 by Ryan Hanson

On October 7th the second presidential debate took place. The questions were asked by audience members and although it seemed like the questions were geared more towards issues in our own country, until there was a question about protecting Israel. That then opened up the option of talking about Iran.
McCain answered his “his friend’s” question by being very stern on how they should go about protecting Israel. Mentioning that he wouldn’t wait for the U.N. to help, he thinks that China and Russia will be a problem. He was basically looking at it in a realist’s perspective.
Obama on the other hand seemed to look at it in a more liberal way. “We cannot allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon. It would be a game-changer in the region. Not only would it threaten Israel, our strongest ally in the region and one of our strongest allies in the world, but it would also create a possibility of nuclear weapons falling into the hands of terrorists. When President Bush decided we’re not going to talk to Iran, we’re not going to talk to North Korea, you know what happened? Iran went from zero centrifuges to develop nuclear weapons to 4,000.”
He points out that the republicans way of dealing with this international issue hasn’t seemed to be working so far, so how would McCain’s point of view be any different. Obviously we need to take a different direction on this topic and it seems like Obama is the man for that job. He is open for talking with other countries, and maybe that will make other countries look at the United States in a different, yet better way.