National Security
Conservative writer and Republican strategist Michael Johns, a former White House speechwriter and Heritage Foundation foreign policy analyst, said today that Russia's ongoing military aggression against Georgia potentially represents a major threat to the global peace that has largely characterized the last 17 years of post-Cold War era relations between Washington and Moscow. Decisive American diplomatic, humanitarian and potentially military responses are warranted, he says, to ensure the defense of Georgia's territorial integrity and its promising and successful democratically-elected government, led by President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Most concerning in Russia's recent aggression, Johns says, is that it appears to represent a return to the expansionist and militarily aggressive tactics that characterized Moscow's foreign policy during the Cold War, and that Russia likely views its current aggression in Georgia as a test case for whether such regional aggression will be resisted or tolerated by the United States and its allies. As with Georgia, which has proven an ally of the United States and western democracies in recent years, Moscow has developed a cantankerous relationship with Ukraine, another democratic ally of the United States that borders Russia. This past spring, for instance, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin threatened to "dismember" the Ukranian peninsula of Crimea.
Johns will discuss his support for President George W. Bush's response earlier today to Russia's regional aggression, along with other current events topics, this evening, August 13, 2008, from 9pm EDT/6pm PDT to 10:30pm EDT/7:30pm PDT, during his weekly appearance on BlogTalkRadio's The Warren Michaels show. The broadcast is available live and by replay in most nations of the world at: The Warren Michaels show.
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John Bolton has a piece in the LA Times that rips Barack Obama on his naivete' on issues of foreign policy. It is quite an extraordinary and succinct analysis of the positions that Obama has taken recently when trying to muddle his way through his foreign policy objectives.
Here is Video of Bolton discussing Obama on Fox with Sean Hannity back in May:
Here is today's story from the LA Times
I love the title of Bolton's Story, "Obama the Naive"!
LA Times Story via JohnMcCain.com
Obama The Naive
June 5, 2008Obama The Naive
His views on world affairs ignore history and imperil the U.S. and our allies.
By John R. Bolton
Los Angeles Times
June 5, 2008Barack Obama's willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea "without preconditions" is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue for policy debate during the remainder of the presidential campaign.
Consider his facile observations about President Kennedy's first meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in Vienna in 1961. Obama saw it as a meeting that helped win the Cold War, when in fact it was an embarrassment for the American side. The inexperienced Kennedy performed so poorly that Khrushchev may well have been encouraged to position Soviet missiles in Cuba in 1962, thus precipitating one of the Cold War's most dangerous crises. read more »
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From AP via Yahoonews
By LIBBY QUAID, Associated Press Writer
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Republican John McCain on Monday dismissed Democratic rival Barack Obama as having zero national security experience. Arriving in North Carolina on the eve of the presidential primary, McCain said there are stark differences between him and the two Democratic candidates, Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. But he concentrated on Obama in particular."Senator Obama wants to sit down with an Iranian leader who is dedicated to wiping Israel off the map — his words," McCain told reporters on his campaign bus. "I don't think we should give him that kind of prestige. "Senator Obama has obviously has no national security experience, and therefore that's reflected in his judgment on a number of those issues." read more »
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Here's video of Senator McCain yesterday responding to Barack Obama's recent attacks on him and what he said in early January about being in Iraq for 100 years.
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John McCain returned to New Hampshire today, the state that turned his campaign around and set him on the road to the GOP Nomination. He was accompanied by good friend, Independent Sen. Joe Libermann. Here is a summary of his stop in Exeter, New Hampshire:
John McCain made a triumphant return to New Hampshire on Wednesday, thanking the state that launched him toward the Republican presidential nomination and telling voters he will need their support again to win in November.
"Can I give you a little straight talk?" the Arizona senator said, using his trademark expression at the end of one of his trademark town-hall meetings. "The state of New Hampshire will be a battleground state. I intend to be back and back and back."
He also used the visit, little more a week after he officially won enough delegates to be the nominee, to publicly make peace with some of his primary rivals. He singled out Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson.
"We are reuniting our party and we've got to re-energize it," he told a crowd of several hundred.
Earlier in the day, McCain told reporters he had begun to flesh out his plans for conducting the search for a running mate, but he also declared the process too fresh to begin ruling in or out any candidate.
Of Romney, who on Tuesday said he would accept an offer, McCain told the town-hall audience: "He fought hard, he fought well. I believe that Governor Romney has earned a place in our Republican Party and I think he's part of the future of our Republican Party."
The senator called Giuliani "a genuine American hero" for his leadership following the 9/11 terrorist attack, and Huckabee and Thompson good and decent men.
McCain was accompanied by Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent, who also has been mentioned as possible running mate, as he was in 2000 when he was the Democratic vice presidential nominee.
Lieberman jabbed at Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, who have been jousting over experience by debating who is best equipped to answer a crisis call in the middle of the night.
Lieberman said of McCain: "He's ready to be commander in chief not just at 3 a.m. -- but at any a.m. or p.m., 24/7. This guy knows what it means to be a leader."
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By a wide margin, Americans want John McCain in the White House to answer those 3 A.M. crisis calls - this according to a Rasmussen Reports poll released today on the subject. Here are the numbers, followed by part of the Rasmussen summary on the poll, and then Ed Morrissey's take on the results:
42% John McCain
25% Hillary Clinton
25% Barack Obama
Before Hillary Clinton was declared the winner in Texas, most American voters had read, seen, or heard about her 3:00 a.m. telephone commercial. A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 43% had seen at least part of the commercial which was played incessantly on news networks and other outlets for days. Another 16% had heard something about it and the overwhelming majority (81%) correctly identified Hillary Clinton as the candidate whose campaign ran the commercial (see the commercial).
The commercial was credited as one factor enabling Clinton to turn her campaign around in Texas last week. But, 42% of all voters said the person they’d most want to answer the phone was John McCain. Among all voters, 25% picked Clinton and another 25% named Obama as the person they’d want in the White House when a foreign policy crisis call arrived. read more »
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John McCain kept drawing clear lines between himself and Barack Obama today, on National Security and Foreign Policy issues. McCain called Obama "naive," and focused on some very questionable comments by Obama last August:
Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain Wednesday branded Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama "naive," seeking to define his possible general election rival as weak on national security.
The charge signalled that Senator McCain, a 71-year-old former navy pilot, Vietnam prisoner of war, and Iraq hawk will try to frame any general election clash with Obama as a referendum on the first-term senator's inexperience. read more »
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