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Thugs and Murderers

By Justin Paulette
Apr 17th 2008 9:21AM

Filed Under:eBarack Obama, John McCain, Foreign Policy

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) gives an address to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.Yesterday on Fox News with Neil Cavuto, John McCain responded to former president Carter's vacation with Hamas in spectacularly unqualified terms. After expressing his sense of "shame" at Carter's "unacceptable" conduct, McCain bluntly referred to Hamas as a group of "thugs and murderers." McCain continued: "You cannot legitimize terrorist, murderers, thugs," by giving them access to the world stage.


McCain joined Clinton in criticizing Obama over his promise to openly negotiate with terror-sponsoring regimes - likely an unreflective, knee-jerk reaction on Obama's part, an automatic opposition to all-things-Bush. Recognizing his dearth of credibility among Jews - and no doubt aware that his starting-from-square-one approach to international affairs merely revealed his lack of sufficient experience to start elsewhere - Obama has now changed his tune with regard to Hamas and criticized Carter's trip.


According to the NY Times, McCain is presently the focal point of a heated foreign policy debate among several competing schools of thought on international affairs. While McCain unhesitatingly delivers black and white conclusions on foreign policy, he seems to be involved in a profoundly philosophic and pragmatic deliberation process, One simply cannot imagine the Obama campaign having yet conducted so serious an effort at critical thinking as has flourished in the McCain camp.

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