Historians Against the War


Sign the Petition

Speakers Bureau

Press Releases and Statements

Virtual Movement Archive

Teach-In

Teaching Resources

Civil Liberties and Academic Freedom

Links

Join our Listserv

Download HAW images

The Blog

About us / Contact us


Saturday, September 27, 2008

Richard Milhous McCain Debates John Fitzgerald Obama

In the debate, I kept expecting Obama to echo Kennedy's warning from 1960 in his debate with Nixon about the need to close the non-existent "missile gap." While he was more restrained than McCain on Iraq and Iran, his differences on other foreign policy issues were generally paper thin.

Like McCain, Obama endorsed the General Jack Ripperesque move of admitting Ukraine and Georgia to NATO (thus potentially obligating the U.S. to escalate to World War III in case of a border dispute with Russia) and a "surge" of more U.S. troops into Afghanistan. Obama's statements on U.S. military incursions into Pakistan made McCain look almost cool-headed by comparison (no small accomplishment).

Labels: , , , , , , , ,