McCain: Obama’s Foreign Policy Views Would Invite Aggression

Republican presidential candidate John McCain told veterans Tuesday that Democrat Barack Obama’s opposition to the Iraq war and preference for collective diplomacy over U.S. leadership would create more trouble and aggression in the world. “The next president must bring to office a clear-eyed view of our nation’s role in the world as the defender of the oppressed and a force for peace,” McCain told a convention of the American Legion, a friendly audience for McCain, a former Navy aviator and one-time prisoner of war in Vietnam. McCain argued that Obama is too shy about leading America to exert itself in world affairs. “In the end, confusion about such questions only invites more trouble, violence and aggression,” said McCain. Obama is to address this group Wednesday, and his campaign responded quickly. McCain would simply continue President Bush’s “failed policies which have left America far less secure and shredded our alliances in the ... (link)