Obama's Response to Iran's Missile Tests

While there seems to be a lot of respect for John McCain, as evidenced by one reader's comment on the previous post, he has done an admirable job of beating the war drums and completely modifying many of his previously held positions on many subjects, including the power and influence held and exercised by Washington lobbyists and controversial subjects such as torture. It seems he is making an all out effort to appease everyone across the board.

Barack Obama has also done some of this, but I find his response to the Iran missile tests a little more comforting and hopeful, in that should he be elected, we might find the US once again acting as a part of the international community. Here is his response:

Sen. Barack Obama: “Part of what we have to do is get the Europeans, the Chinese, the Russians, all to recognize that it’s in nobody’s interests, including Iran’s, I believe, to have a nuclear weapon that could trigger a nuclear arms race in the region. And that’s something that I intend to make a number one priority when I’m in the White House, making sure they don’t have that nuclear capability."

McCain's response to Iran's Missile Tests

Sen. John McCain: “It’s time for action. And it’s time to make the Iranians understand that this kind of violation of international treaties, this kind of threatening of their neighbors, this kind of continued military activity, is
not without cost."

After Iran's recent long-range missile tests, presumably in response to all the Bush government rhetoric about that evil country's presumed intentions, Republican presidential candidate John McCain came up with this convincing response.

Hmm. Let's see. What if we inserted another world leader as the author of the quote, referring to (gasp!) the United States?

Violation of international treaties... Geneva anyone? Others include:

• Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague IV)
  
• U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3314
• Nuremberg Tribunal Charter
• 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention

Threatening their neighbors.... how about countries all around the globe, from Latin America to Asia to ?

Continuing military activity... Iraq, Chile, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Grenada, Haiti, Fiji, Liberia, Chad, South Korea...