The thrust was bad stuff can come up suddenly and the president has to deal with it?
Well, we've got a real crisis on our hands.
Let's see how the candidates respond to it.
McCain obviously took time to determine first that Russia had indeed attacked Georgia before demanding restraint from the victim. It’s apparent that McCain has a better grasp of the situation and understood its ramifications as events unfolded. Obama issued a boilerplate statement that generically demanded that everyone start getting along, and had to modify his stance as his 300 foreign-policy advisers had a chance to tutor him on the conflict.
I’d rather vote for the man who gets it right and has spent years studying foreign affairs, warfare, and American strategic needs than the man who makes it up as he goes along. McCain is right; this was a 3 AM moment, and Obama proved himself unprepared and unsuited to answer the call.
The irony of the "War on Terror" (man what a silly name) is that it made people forget that wars can be fast and involve "big countries" and that it doesn't have to be the US at fault.
We are not post history. Other nations are still jerks and bastards and nasty shit happens. It's not always our fault and sometimes we have to deal with it.
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