Substance trumps style

Senator Barack Obama just does not get it. Speaking yesterday on the campaign trail he said "if al-Qaida is forming a base in Iraq" he would take action. Guess what Senator, al-Qaida IS IN IRAQ! Senator McCain speaking from Texas today, responded to Obama's Jimmy Carteresque policy: "When you examine that statement, it's pretty remarkable," McCain told a crowd in Tyler, Texas. "I have some news. Al-Qaida is in Iraq. It's called 'al-Qaida in Iraq,'" McCain said, drawing laughter at Obama's expense. Making contrasts with both of his Democrat rivals he continued: "And my friends, if we left, they (al-Qaida) wouldn't be establishing a base," McCain said Wednesday. "They'd be taking a country, and I'm not going to allow that to happen, my friends. I will not surrender. I will not surrender to al-Qaida." As Common Sense has stated many times over the past few months, withdrawing from Iraq is not only immoral at this point, but it is an imprudent policy. Such an act will only embolden al-Qaida and any other terrorist organization to attack the US because we cannot honor our commitments and we do not have the resolve to follow through. Such a policy would be disastarous to the region as a whole, to Iraq in particular, and to US foreign policy abroad. Voters need to wake up from their Obama frenzy and realize that there's not much substance beneath all of that style.