Our foreign policies over the past 20 years have got us into a right mess.
What are we doing in Afghanistan and Iraq? What has our presence there got to do with us here at home? Seven years of talk justifying the war, wasted life and treasure.
Now stretched so thin that the Russian tyrants are testing us in Georgia, again in expansion mode of past Russian Czars and now in that of their modern heirs.
Senator McCain has his opportunity now for a hundred years of war. War seems to be his favorite subject. Only he'll not be here for 100 years.
Putin's soul is not what it appeared to President Bush nor is “winning” the war in Iraq what it appears to be in the eyes of Senator McCain.
We are not too popular in the Muslim world and now it seems also among Russian leaders. Even Gorbachev has spoken out against us. Perhaps now China can become a close ally. Can that be true?
Even Senator Obama is moving closer to Senator McCain's policies to improve his status in the polls.
Obviously, McCain's experience is one of the reasons for not voting for McCain.
Which leaves Obama. My advice to him, for what it is worth is to develop a foreign policy that will lead us out of this mess, this war that he has been opposed to from the beginning.
Neither McCain nor Obama have experience as presidents but Bush and Bill Clinton do. Their experience seems to have moved us into this mess. I don't believe that all Republicans think that McCain's the guy to lead us.
Not all Democrats are without doubt about Obama's ability to do it.
But we need a change in direction. Let us pray that Obama can, like another from Illinois, like Lincoln another unexperienced president carry us with wisdom through a great national and international crisis.
The promise of what America is and is to become in the 21st century is in the hands of our next president.
Let's hope that he has the developing wisdom of Lincoln in our presently developing crisis.
