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Ttrryosborn

24 May 2008 - 6:54am

Candace;

Hamas' Worst Nightmare?

McCain is correct about Hamas. It would be a slap in the face of our allies in the Mideast to suddenly treat terrorist organizations like Hamas as legitimate entities. They are not.

At best, they prevent their own people from negotiating peace. At worst, they are just hired guns for Syrian and Iranian adventure in the Mideast.

More Violent Than George Bush?

It is extremists in Iraq who are violent. They have been attempting to throw the country into Chaos since the fall of Saddam. I am surprised you overlook that while easily critizing US efforts at democracy. It is not an easy job as we all know.

The UN does not agree with you. Every year it reauthorizes its mandate for the US and Britain to stabilize the country, not throw it into convulsions.

Charges of instability belong to those carrying it out. They are external influences (like al Qaeda, Syria and Iran) and internal ones (like sectarian hit squads, Sunni rebels and common criminals). Efforts by the US and Iraqi government have reduced violence considerably in the last year.

Giving Legitimacy to Terrorists and The Governments That Support Them?

Hardly. Terrorists have lost their appeal in Iraq due to their mass murders. Even the Sunni tribes have joined the US and Iragi government against them. Palestinian rocket attacks into Israel have gained them nothing but world contempt.

Why should the US suddenly kowtow to these scum?

If Obama cannot understand who our friends and enemies in the Mideast are, he should not be President.