Obama vs McCain - World Policy Is Deciding Factor

Obama, by his selection of Joe Biden, that he is not strong in foreign policy. This is somewhat an honorable thing. Like it or not the United States does not and can live in isolation. That has been tried and failed as history clearly shows.

Liking the global economy or not make no difference. It is real and will be real even if some of us plant our heads clearly in the sand. Also the overall global economy and foreign happenings are tied to each other, like it or not. Our domestic economy is tied to foreign policy, like it or not. It is not going to change no matter what unless we wish to become a third world country. Then we can do what we want and no one will care because we no longer matter!

Much like when the United States entered World War II, everyone in the United States and parts of the world where happy. There where protests and even riots in some of our major cities. While this is not reflected in many of our history books but a research of old newspapers clearly shows it did happen.

A President will need the expertise to balance our own economy, our position in the global economy, the global economy, worldwide politics, and lastly what is good for the masses. No easy task for a simple human because regardless to any decision the chances are a vocal group will be opposed to it. Sadly, often history written long after the President is gone from the face of the earth that it becomes clear if their decisions where correct.

LIKE IT OR NOT:

1- Oil is the blood of the world economy. Without it, every major economy will FAIL worldwide.

2- Russia has a failing economy both at that their own stock market and attracting foreign investment. Foreign investment has dropped nearly 50% in the past six months.

3- Russia leadership believes oil is the way back into being a world power broker and sphere of influence.

4- Russia’s leadership is old school in their thought process, that believe in using the military to carry them back into being a world power.

5- Russia invaded Georgia to send multiple messages to neighboring countries including our friends in Europe.

6- Russia leadership has already cut oil to parts of Eastern Europe in showing their power.

7- Iran is developing short range missiles and has some type of nuclear program going on. While public debate is if the nuclear systems are being developed for power generation or weapons use.

8- Iran has an unstable leadership that is not supported by the majority of people living in the country.

9- Iran leadership has recently stated they believe Israel should be wiped off the face of the earth. Iran’s leadership could be short sighted and launch a nuclear attack Israel which Israel would rightfully respond with his own launch of nuclear weapons. Regardless of how “limited” this exchange would be world wide effect from fallout on the health and welfare of people hundreds to thousands of miles away.

10- North Korea has demonstrated they have both a nuclear program and missile program. They are one of the poorest countries in the world to have access to nuclear program and missiles.

11- North Korea is a complex issue of trying to help them become a thriving country without helping them become a military power. China plays a key roll in what happens within North Korea.

12- China is an expanding country that is joining the modern world. They are growing at record pace even though their government has tried to slow this process for solid economic reasons. The United States needs to build relations with them and work within that fame work to provide better human rights, environment issue, and being a peaceful nation. However, it has to be from a fine balance of equal respect, military strength, and cooperation.

13- Venezuela is much more complicated matter that is setting on the backburner. The leadership of Venezuela is only supported the poor from within their country. The remainder of the society has little to no confidence in the leadership.

14- Venezuela leadership is seeking to become a regional power broker in the Western Hemisphere. They have made recent close ties to Russia, which is mostly an arm for oil program. While Venezuela has no natural enemies in the region they are building the largest standing military in South America. This is of concern of many of our South American friends.

15- Africa, as a region, is a troubling area from wars, hunger, illness and human rights. No single country can fix any of the problems by themselves. But this is one issue that a President will need to understand both our friends and enemies in pursuit of attacking these issues.

Voters are going to need to decide a tough decision. Do they want a guy who has nearly zero experience in even being around foreign policy over a guy who has been around it for over 20 years? The new kid would need a “scorecard” to even remember the names of these players, let alone how they thought in the past, which often predicts the future.