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Originally Posted by MaleFashionista
I know McCain hardly has the best interests of the Pakistani people in mind...but he's hardly unique among the candidates in that regard. All of them ideally want to establish (or perhaps impose would be a better word) stable, pro-US governments across the Middle East/Muslim world. The difference is that only Obama feels the need to threaten military strikes every couple weeks.
Unfortunately, I don't really see how any of the other candidates are any more friendly towards Muslims than McCain is. In all likelihood, Obama will be the Democratic nominee, and the man pretty much freaks out if you so much as mention the M word in his presence. I suspect that an Obama administration would actually be quite harsh towards American Muslims, as he'll probably feel the need to distance himself from Islam/Muslims more than any other president, in order to escape the stigma of his pseudo-Islamic background.
It looks like there aren't going to be any particularly appealing options for Muslim voters in the upcoming elections...I'm pretty tempted to just not vote. But if I had to chose, I kinda think McCain would be the lesser of the two evils (provided he doesn't choose Huckabee as his running mate).
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Yeh, if anyone is voting solely based on foreign policy that affects Muslims, then one may as well not vote.
Although I must admit I was surprised that more aren't voting for Obama, he seems committed to pulling troops out of Iraq, and even though he talks tough about invading Pakistan, I doubt he'd ever commit some kind of large large cross-border action.