Re: Re: Re: I think McCain, while favored by the media, will lose.

Posted by maxmccauley on 01-25-2008 in Who will win the Republican primary?

First of all, whether you like him or not doesn't make him the most unlikely candidate. The question of this thread is "Who will win the Republican primary?", not whether or not you like the candidate.

Secondly, all McCain is saying is that we aren't going to simply abandon Iraq after the mess we caused. He cites Japan as an example of somewhere we still have a military presence. Is that really bothering you? Do you want to "get the troops out of Japan?" The reason why we will have people in Iraq for possibly a century to come is because the Middle East is the most volatile and important region in the world right now. It also happens to be the breeding ground for most of the world's terrorism at this point in time. McCain is simply saying that if the region is stabalized and we are not losing any more American lives by being in Iraq then we should be there in order to protect our national security interests.