Humbrols blog

Still not 100% sure on who I am voting for but so far McCain is in the lead. He has a military background and knows how the military works and has experience in world politics. Where as Obama wants to sit down with the Quadafi types and try to work things out. Terrorists aren’t very open to negotiations, to them we are the great devil  who must be defeated in the name of thier god. Talking to us and reasoning out a peaceful existance is NOT in their plans. Obama wants to withdraw the troops from Iraq right away, yet another mistake. We are there now and we need to finish what we started. Yes its a mess but if we withdraw, we will lose untold troops to poorly laid withdrawal plans as well as leave the entire region more unstable than it was when we got there. The war has entered its longest phase yet, the hearts and minds. We are starting to see groups who were initially against us, coming to our side. They are beginning to see where the terrorists are willing to take thier country and are doing to thier own fellow citizens and finally are standing up against them as well. We need to continue to perservere and to build that country, one road, one school and one city at a time. If Iraq suceeds in becoming a democracy, there are further benefits. The people of Iran have been on the brink of revolution for a decade and if they are right next door to a country where there is free markets, no persecution or tyrants running the country into the ground, nor denying rights and freedoms, it will only spread.