Toronto Sun: World views McCain with unease, skepticism

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World views McCain with unease, skepticism
By ERIC MARGOLIS

Last Updated: 2nd November 2008, 2:41am


A lot of people ask me which presidential candidate would have the most positive effect on America's foreign policy and global image.

Sen. John McCain has stated he intends to "confront" Russia, which he warns is an increasingly menacing power. He has proposed a hard line towards China to keep its growing power contained. Welcome back Moscow and Beijing to America's enemies list.

McCain has put Sen. Joseph Lieberman in charge of Mideast policy and surrounded himself with other neocon advisers. Sen. McCain vows to battle Iran, Lebanon's Hezbollah, Hamas in Palestine, al-Qaida and its allies, Taliban, Pakistani Taliban and all other Muslim "terrorists," as he calls them.

McCain and Lieberman strongly back Israel's right wing parties, notably Likud, which rejects any meaningful land for peace deal with Palestinians and is determined to keep colonizing the West Bank.

A McCain win means no Arab-Israeli peace agreement even though half of Israelis, and a majority of American Jews, support such an agreement.

No peace in the Mideast means more violence and more troubles for the United States. The men who flew airliners into buildings in New York and Washington on 9/11 made clear they were motivated by Palestine. Expect what the West calls "terrorism," and the Muslim world calls "resistance to oppression," to continue or worsen. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/eric_margolis/2008/11/02/7279626-sun.html

[BrklynLiberal]

1. As well they should. Even his own party calls him erratic.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. No one in the world wants a McCain/Pain ticket

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3. No one in the world wants a McCain/Pain ticket

[Boojatta]

4. "The men who flew airliners into buildings in New York and Washington on 9/11 made clear they...

were motivated by Palestine."

I thought that somebody who congratulated the people who flew planes into buildings on 9/11 complained about a number of things, including Palestine, but that he denied any personal involvement.