McCain asserts right to preemptive strike

John McCain today would not rule out the use of a preemptive strike against another country if he were President. McCain is quoted as saying, "If someone is about to launch a weapon that would devastate America, or have the capability to do so, obviously, you would have to act immediately in defense of this nation's national security interests."

This comment makes no sense as the United States had Nuclear Missiles pointed at us from the Soviet Union during the cold war, and we didn't use a preemptive strike against them. The strategy employed during those years was that if they were stupid enough to launch a weapon against us, we would retaliate with overwhelming force. This strategy called MAD (Mutual Assured Destruction, kept the peace and the same reasoning could be used today if he could stop being a war monger and look for ways to live in peace with the rest of the world. But then again, McCain won't change. So let's hope Obama becomes President.

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