AMERICA THE WEAK

[thundley4]

This is kind of scary.

IF Sen. Barack Obama is elected president, our re public will survive, but our international strategy and some of our allies may not. His first year in office would conjure globe-spanning challenges as our enemies piled on to exploit his weakness.

Add in Sen. Joe Biden - with his track record of calling every major foreign-policy crisis wrong for 35 years - as vice president and de facto secretary of State, and we'd face a formula for strategic disaster.

Where would the avalanche of confrontations come from?

* Al Qaeda. Pandering to his extreme base, Obama has projected an image of being soft on terror. Toss in his promise to abandon Iraq, and you can be sure that al Qaeda will pull out all the stops to kill as many Americans as possible - in Iraq, Afghanistan and, if they can, here at home - hoping that America will throw away the victories our troops bought with their blood.

* Pakistan. As this nuclear-armed country of 170 million anti-American Muslims grows more fragile by the day, the save-the-Taliban elements in the Pakistani intelligence services and body politic will avoid taking serious action against "their" terrorists (while theatrically annoying Taliban elements they can't control). The Pakistanis think Obama would lose Afghanistan - and they believe they can reap the subsequent whirlwind.

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[DumbAss Tanker]

Anybody with two neurons to rub together can see there are at least nine flashpoints relating to the Islamic world, several of which are bound to blow up if he gets in:

Israel/pan-Islam & Palestinian relations
Syrian/Lebanese issues
Israel/Hezbollah
Iranian nuclear program
Iranian designs on Israel
Iranian desires to interfere with internal Iraqi affairs
Pakistani internal issues affecting who there ends up in control of their nukes
Pakistani frontier control issues vs. touchy sovereignity over Waziristan and impact on Afghan war
Darfur

Nor are the Islamic world issues the only problems ahead, there are Chinese/Tibetan/Indian issues, pirates in the HOA which are beginning to get out of hand (could lead to further Islamic issues but religion isn't at the core of it), several non-Islamic related crises in Africa for which he in particular would be expected to take a special initiative to insert us, an increasingly testy Russia trying its hand at ramping up threats against our easternmost NATO allies and wannabes, and on and on.