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I get a kick out of reading news from foreign papers and such because they have quite varying views on the United States and our goings on.
Here is one of those views from a paper based in Lebanon. Only Brief excerpts are taken.
Al-Hayat, Lebanon via Watching America
The Three U.S. Presidential
Candidates and Us
What is certain is that the election campaign has garnered an interest by people worldwide not seen for such a campaign in the past. It's worth it to explain the reasons for such an increased interest.
1- The fact that American policy, in its diplomatic, military, and economic power, if to a lesser extent, remains shameless. And by this word I mean its excessive ambitions, the viciousness of its behaviors, the cruelty of its practices, and perhaps as well the greatness of its defeats. If not defeats than the irrelevance of its victories despite the sheer amount it has spent on armaments and wars and in its preaching of a certain ideology.
On John McCain
As for Senator McCain, the announcement of his candidacy caused something of a shock in many public opinion-making circles, as the senator has, since the first days of his campaign, shown himself to be the successor to President Bush in his total commitment to his foreign policy and his complete dedication to his policies aimed at the economy. A commitment, he claims, without any of the drawbacks caused by Bush's personality. His campaign marks in fact a more extreme version of his foreign policy, especially when it comes to issues like the war against Islam under the banner of a War on terror and a war on Iraq (which he contends could last for 100 years or longer), his support for Israel at the expense of all Arabs and of the Palestinians in particular. At the same time McCain has continued to insist that he is not identical to Bush and Bush continues to suggest to his audience that McCain avoids him and doesn't want to be seen with him. This supposedly comes as per instructions from the Republican party.
Therefore politicians in China and Russia and in Europe have a reason to be more sensitive towards the three presidential candidates. Whichever one of them inherits the responsibility of managing America's interests in the contest for predominance will have to do so while doing the least damage to America. For that reason one has to take a serious look at the plans of candidate McCain, especially in regards to the long term war against Iraq and Iran and perhaps all Muslims and Arabs. One has to look seriously at the comments by Hillary as well, especially those about obliterating Iran from existence. And at the same time one has to take into account Barack Obama's plans, not only because he talks at length about an understanding with Iran and North Korea, but also especially because he does not have any previous experience in foreign policy and would need a significant amount of time in order to gain the support of the Military establishment and the armaments industry and the elite on the extreme right and Israeli lobby groups, because without the support of these factions or at least a majority of them he will not have any significant political achievements in international relations, and especially with Asia and the Middle East.
The next time that you hear about Iran supporting Obama or whatever, remember that the rest of the world has their own reasons for supporting whomever they want in the White House also.
2 Comments:
Psychotic1 is one of those of limited knowledge and unlimited opinion. I wonder how such people actually function in real life without others supporting them. Such statements are of two kinds (1) divisive purposeful propaganda or (2) the bliss of ignorance. Freedom of speech does allow people to still make a jackass of themselves in a public forum.
I take it that the commenter dislikes the fact that psychotic1 posted an opinion from a foreign paper? You must be a republican, since they are so well versed in your two points about the statements in the piece.
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