I guess he means like Dubya is Osama's worst nightmare.

1. Giving Osama validity by doing everything he predicted he would do.

2. Calling of the troops when they had him trapped in Tora-Bora.

3. Giving him an unceasing number of recruits and suicide bombers.

4. Turning the rest of the world against our country so much so that more people consider George Bush a more dangerous person than BinLadin.

That is the kind of threat that John McBomb would be to Hamas. More of the same. Does anyone actually believe his bs?

"sane Americans don't let evil terrorists influence their thinking about what's best for our great country."

seriously. I hope this becomes a tag line in the Dem general election campaign.

John McCain = danger. he would be one of the most dangerous presidents we've had.

McCain's basic task is to keep both the far right and maverick-loving independents happy. After eight years of Bush that is going to require a particularly wide stance. The wingnuts don't trust him so his dog whistles may have to be quite audible at times and I think that is what phrases like "worst nightmare" and "gates of hell" are about. At a certain level of male insecurity nothing gathers the tribes like good ole chest thumping bravado.

But the real question is where McCain actually stands these days. After roaming back and forth over the political landscape over the past ten years one has to wonder if McCain's ambition to be President has obscured his judgment. If you watch one of his town hall meetings on CSPAN he seems reasonably consistent. I have watched 3 or 4 and I am not entirely sure what he would do about Hamas or Iran or Iraq.

Our largest problems are economic, environmental, educational, or social. The smallest issue we have is defending our territory.

Yet McAttack is trying to make the election about war?

...the root causes of Hamas-like terrorism would be undermined?

That would be Hamas's worst nightmare. Not hardly; there's little or nothing in McCain's bellicose language to support the idea that he has a shred of a rational plan for dealing with the Middle East.

Indeed. The very rationale for Hamas is that the Palestinian Authority does nothing for the Palestinian people. Give the Palestinians a real reason to not vote for Hamas - not an easy thing, to be sure - and they'll quietly fade into history.

The real problem is that if the PA were strong enough militarily to eliminate Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the other non-state actors on the Palestinian side, the Israelis would never tolerate that either. The real way to eliminate Hamas is for a realistic, just, resolution* of the questions plaguing the region. This will not happen, as there are too many people on both sides working actively to prolong the situation for their own short-sighted reasons.

* When every adult Palestinian has at least a full-time job and is 15-20 pounds overweight, peace will happen. Bet on that.

McCain and Bin Laden are on the same page:

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/04/john-mccain-gra.html

Mad Dog John McBomb's entire idea of "foreign policy" consists in the old Third Reich slogan: "Wherever the German soldier plants his boot, there he must remain." Substitute "American" for "German" and you have the "senior moment" limit of what great-grandpa McBomb can formulate in a single policy sentence at any one time. About the much more important domestic-economy and planet-altering environmental issues, McBomb has not even one coherent sentence to offer.

The Republicans did not even have a nominating primary. Instead, they staged some bizarro Keystone Cops farce where the least worst of a bad lot survived by (not even much) attrition to emerge as the head rodent of the rabid rat pack. If a civil law suit protesting McBomb's foreign birth does not wind up putting some other as-yet-undetermined American at the head of the discredited Republican ticket, I predict that the current Barry Goldwater from Arizona will get what the last Barry Goldwater from Arizona got in a presidential election: namely, beaten like the proverbial red-headed step-child.

Americans have had more than enough of Republicans and their crony corporate crypto-fascism. "Change" means no more of them for at least the next generation or two.

I have said a number of times that if you give some people all the weapons a $500 billion (and growing) Pentagon budget can buy, they are going to want to use them.

McCain is the quintessential example of the people I refer to.

@JohnW1141

Here's a few bucks, go buy a dictionary and look up the word "defeated."

Miriam Webster has an online dictionary, you dumb fossil. Here's the definition

3: to win victory over : beat synonyms see conquer

"defeat" doesn't mean "unconditional surrender", doesn't mean "utterly destroy", and doesn't mean conquer "forever, absolutely, and for all time".

No one has yet "defeated" Hamas, the subject of the post

Hamas is the latest "great dark hope" of the Jew-haters? So what. Hundt wants to claim that Hamas is not really defeatable, that they are a hundred headed hydra which will forever regenerate. That's the hope of the quagmire crowd, the Jew-haters, the America-haters, the communists, the useless idiots. Forget it. History does not support you. That's the point of my post.

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