[Peace-discuss] More war with Obama-Biden

[John W.]

It's not evident who wrote this in Counterpunch.  But Carl, what would YOU
have done if you were President Kennedy in 1962, and you found out that the
Soviet Union was about to install "secret" nuclear missile silos in Cuba?

John Wason


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:34 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

I guess Bush and Cheney are too busy working on the pardons to have time for
> anything else like an attack on Iran. . But don't fret. Joe Biden hints that
> he and Obama are working on it, though they may declare war on Russia first.
> Or Venezuela. So much to do in those first 100 days. An empire in October
> will still be an Empire next January. We'll have continuity.
>
> "Mark my words," Biden said solemnly at a Seattle fundraiser last Sunday.
> "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did
> John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant
> 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I
> said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch,
> we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the
> mettle of this guy."
>
> "I can give you at least four or five scenarios from where it might
> originate," Biden went on. He mentioned the Middle East and Russia. "And
> he's gonna need help. And the kind of help he's gonna need is, he's gonna
> need you - not financially to help him - we're gonna need you to use your
> influence, your influence within the community, to stand with him. Because
> it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're
> right."
>
> What exactly is Biden hinting at in that last sentence? From the context of
> that whole paragraph it's clear enough to me he's suggesting that despite
> hopes nourished by the sort of people at that Seattle fundraiser that
> post-Bush/Cheney America might backpeddle from hasty military
> confrontations, President Obama will stand tall and lose no time in going
> eyeball to eyeball with those who would test his resolve.
>
> When JFK was worried that his mettle was being tested and he might look
> like a wimp, we got the Berlin crisis of July, 1961. We got right to the
> brink of World War Three.
>
> So don't write off that attack on Iran quite yet. On Iran Obama is more
> hawkish than McCain; on Afghanistan and Pakistan too.
>
> --<http://www.counterpunch.org/>
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