Hey everyone, I am posting one of a few of my articles that was published in the College of Charleston student newspaper, the George Street Observer. Hope you enjoy!
It’s 2 a.m. and the phone rings in the White House and John McCain answers the phone cool and collected. He has been put in a situation like this before and has the experience; he is a man lacking fear just concentrating on the problem at hand, much better than inexperienced Barack Obama.
The match up in the general election is a total mismatch in foreign policy. Senator McCain is a ranking member of the Senate Committee on Armed Forces, a committee that he has been a member of since 1987 when he was first elected to the Senate. McCain is also a member of the sub committees for Readiness, Personnel, and Sea Power, which fall under the Armed Forces umbrella.
As a commander, McCain is a polished politician who was been overseas and has seen the battlefield. He knows combat better than anyone because he has walked a couple miles in the shoes of the men and women in Iraq.
This is not a campaign commercial, nor an uneducated mass of babbling. Obama has spent no time in the military, spending his younger years in college, law school, a lawyer, a state senator, and now a U.S. Senator, never saluting a commander overseas.
Senator McCain was a firm support of the surge, one of the most successful U.S. military strategies in Iraq. McCain told ABC News, “We are now succeeding in Iraq and Americans, at least I believe, are in significant numbers agreeing that the present strategy of the surge is succeeding and they want us to succeed.” He supported what he believed in, even if some of the members of the Senate didn’t agree with his position. Following its success, news media rarely had coverage of any action in Iraq, other than those of negativity on the war front and as for Obama, even with the success of the surge Obama claims that the surge was a bad idea and still stands firmly against it.
McCain is also a champion in the field of Homeland Security. Along with Senator Joe Lieberman, John McCain helped to develop legislation based on the 9/11 Commission Report. Through his efforts, the National Counterterrorism Center was eventually established.
Obama will cause security problems, not fix them. He doesn’t have the political power to ensure the safety of America. McCain can lead with safety and tranquility, which America needs right now. We are in a time where politics are changing and McCain is willing to listen and move along with the shifting tides. He promises stability and adaptability in a world that needs both desperately. Liberty and justice for all is a promise McCain can keep, but Obama cannot, because foreign policy has a lot more to do with experience and resilience then ever before.
