Week 3, Item 3

By Jared Behrend

An article in today's New York Times, titled "Rivals Split on U.S. Power, but Ideas Defy Labels," McCain's and Obama's views on Iran's attempts at enriching uranium are outlined. John McCain's position is bolstered by his experience with war, his interest in war, and certain jokes he has made about war, "bomb bomb bomb Iran," as the article reports. The preponderance toward war, as well as McCain's support of Bush's Iraq War and the statements that the war "was easy" and that we were "greeted as liberators" show a mistaken idea of what war is and when the U.S. should become involved in it. In the case of Iran, a conflict over nuclear proliferation could ultimately lead to military action in a McCain led government it appears. This is not the right direction for our country.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/us/politics/23policy.html?hp