20080326-McCain’s Able

I like John McCain’s speech at the ‘Los Angeles World Council Affairs’ a few minutes ago, which was finished this morning at around 09:45AM. He mentioned not liking war because he has been through hell as a POW (or prisoner of war) for five years while serving in the Vietnam War. He knows what it is like to be all alone and lonely in a strange land, while being tortured by ‘enemies’ all around him.

His example of torture is analogous to the United State and its unpopular president’s pre-emptive strike in an illegal war, which killed many Iraqi civilians compared to the American military casualty of 4,000 as presented by recent televised mind programmings. The pain and suffering is not only felt by those who lost family members to the war but by the hard working people and the financial impact on the American economy.

His speech strikes me as believable — the military (realistically) cannot be pulled out from the Middle East due to ’security interest’ of the real estate value of Iraq and Iran. The region has been unstable historically for the longest time and once again the people of the Middle East must be the ones to change ultimately and mature away from their ancestor’s religious dogmas.

[While on the topic of religion, I don't see why religion must be used to scare the people into fearful, group-thinking sheep -- from those extreme Islamic fundamentalists to Reverend Jeremiah Wright's bigoted and racial comments about whites and the vain usage of 'God'. His speech is by far not appropriate to children and should not be rated 'G' either.]

This brings me to why I am not too sure about Barack Obama and is association with those who continue to harbor racial sentiments by generations of the past, which is long gone. And like old wounds that should heal over time, the seven year war with Iraq has to be over and out, too, and soon. Guilt may be shared but blood is thicker than water.

The United States lost not only the war but the support of the international community. If McCain is ‘able’ to bring the troops home, I’ll vote for him instead of Obama (whose policies still remains quite ambiguous to me) if he is nominated as the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party.

At least in today’s speech, McCain makes more sense about his role as the presumptive nominee for president with the Republican Party. Either way, TPTB will almost always use their ‘chosen’ puppet to achieve their agendas. And that, my friend, will be a long war to battle if people continue to rely on ONE person, a president, for resolutions to the planet’s ever-changing global economy.

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