The National Security Debate

some foreign policy analysts assert there is unlikely to be a dramatic shift in Washington's national security positions regardless of which major candidate wins. Timothy Lynch and Robert Singh of the University of London write that none of the lead candidates have disavowed the "war on terror." They also assert Obama's "opposition to the Iraq war is empirical--'it didn't work'--rather than ideological." Full Story »

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Barry Finkel
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by Barry Finkel - Oct. 1, 2008

This article takes the candidates' campaign talk and turns it into policy. Obama saying he would talk to the bad guys is meaningless except that MCain can use it to brand him naive. McCain adopts a hardass stance because many conservatives like that. Either will likely be guided by other more practical forces when elected. So this article is superficial, but even handed. Not much there.

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