H2O_MAN wrote:Who is the best Presidential candidate to protect this country
and our allies against Islamic fascist and Islamic terrorism ??
I honestly don't know. Among the Obama, Clinton, or McCain, hands down it would be McCain. Is he better than any 'other' on this particular issue? That's quite difficult to say. As much as President Bush has been criticized and much maligned, even by me on some issues, he has done a pretty good job on national security given that attacks on Americans have been restricted to Afghanistan and Iraq since 9/11. That's a far sight better track record than Reagan, Bush 41, or Clinton can claim, but then 9/11 provided the national political will for Bush 43 to accomplish that.
So. . . .should McCain essentially follow and/or build on W's game plan on fighting terrorism, he could probably do a lot worse. Could somebody else be even better? That's possible of course.
My main concern is McCain's notion of closing down GITMO and similar operations and bringing terrorists here where they will have full legal rights under the U.S. Constitution. I'm not sure that is a prudent decision though I am willing to be convinced. I think policies weakening our ability to deal with terrorism would almost certainly occur in an Obama or H Clinton administration.
Would Obama or Clinton be likely to do so? I have not been convinced that they would.