More Warfare On Horizon With New President
-- Creators.com
-- Creators.com
After the entire grand national psychodrama of the 2008 presidential election is history, the man who moves into the White House will face a range of key issues that have gotten short media shrift throughout the nearly interminable campaign. Those issues will reshape the political battle lines in ways that the election coverage has scarcely illuminated.
Early sounds of important policy conflicts to come — not only Democrats versus Republicans but also between Democrats and Democrats — can already be heard in recent news stories, though the rat-tat-tat of campaign coverage has all but drowned them out.
"The well-advertised differences between John McCain and Barack Obama on the war in Iraq may obscure a consequential similarity between their hawkish views on the use of American military force in other places," The Washington Post reported in a story that appeared on the fourth page of the newspaper's A section. "Just two questions in the three debates between the two nominees touched on the subject, and neither has spoken at length on it during a fall campai
Early sounds of important policy conflicts to come — not only Democrats versus Republicans but also between Democrats and Democrats — can already be heard in recent news stories, though the rat-tat-tat of campaign coverage has all but drowned them out.
"The well-advertised differences between John McCain and Barack Obama on the war in Iraq may obscure a consequential similarity between their hawkish views on the use of American military force in other places," The Washington Post reported in a story that appeared on the fourth page of the newspaper's A section. "Just two questions in the three debates between the two nominees touched on the subject, and neither has spoken at length on it during a fall campai
Early sounds of important policy conflicts to come — not only Democrats versus Republicans but also between Democrats and Democrats — can already be heard in recent news stories, though the rat-tat-tat of campaign coverage has all but drowned them out.
"The well-advertised differences between John McCain and Barack Obama on the war in Iraq may obscure a consequential similarity between their hawkish views on the use of American military force in other places," The Washington Post reported in a story that appeared on the fourth page of the newspaper's A section. "Just two questions in the three debates between the two nominees touched on the subject, and neither has spoken at length on it during a fall campaign dominated by economic issues. Yet both have revealed a willingness to commit U.S. forces overseas for both strategic and humanitarian purposes. Both agree on a course of action in Afghanistan that could lead to a long-term commitment of American soldiers without a clear statement of how long they might remain or what conditions would lead to their withdrawal."
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"The well-advertised differences between John McCain and Barack Obama on the war in Iraq may obscure a consequential similarity between their hawkish views on the use of American military force in other places," The Washington Post reported in a story that appeared on the fourth page of the newspaper's A section. "Just two questions in the three debates between the two nominees touched on the subject, and neither has spoken at length on it during a fall campaign dominated by economic issues. Yet both have revealed a willingness to commit U.S. forces overseas for both strategic and humanitarian purposes. Both agree on a course of action in Afghanistan that could lead to a long-term commitment of American soldiers without a clear statement of how long they might remain or what conditions would lead to their withdrawal."
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