A Tale of Two Bracelets

Two bracelets - two VERY different reasons for wearing them.

During the first Presidential debate on September 25, both Senator John McCain and Senator Barak Obama stated - and explained - why they were wearing bracelets with the name of a soldier killed in Iraq - but not a SINGLE commentator picked up on the vastly different reasons they were wearing it.

After Senator McCain stated that he was asked to wear one in memory and honor of a Sgt killed outside Baghdad in August 2006 at a campaign stop in 2007. He stated he would be honored to wear it with and with pride. Senator Obama also stated that he too has one (Me too! Me too!) but the reason HE wears it is NOT to honor the memory of sacrifice of the soldier - but to wear it to remind people that the war and that this and other soldiers death was a "waste" (my words) and showcase the grief of the MOTHER,  and to remind people that the war was wrong and that all the US personnel send to Iraq who have been killed and wounded was wrong - and to indirectly state that he would never send soldiers to any country no matter what that country is doing to its people or other nations unless that country is DIRECTLY threatening the US. And NO nation has ever "directly" threatened the US since Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. Not even the Soviet Union DIRECTLY threatened the USA - it was always via proxies and those countries never stated they would attack the USA - just denounced us and stated that we were always wrong in helping ANY nation anywhere in the world.

Thus, Senator Obama is in essence trying to take the USA toward the UN goal is just talk and never helping any nation at all (not counting our treaty obligations of defending against overt aggression - so we would go over and defend England if Liberia tried to mount a naval invasion - but only after we talk it over at the UN and try to work out an agreement first.) But if two adjacent nations got into a war with each other and no defense treaty with either of them, then we would stand on the sidelines and do nothing even if the war would indirectly affect us.

So if another Balkans conflict erupted - we would stand on the sidelines under a Barak Presidency and do nothing - since those countries are not attacking us and we have no NATO treaty tying us to them.

Which type of bracelet wearing person do you want leading the USA?