America needs a president who does not apply fear wastefully

Roger Cohen so eloquently wrote in this New York Times article today, The Politics of Confidence, “The next leader has to be curious. Presidential body language needs to say “I’m one of you.” Facebook engagement must supplant fearful estrangement.”

Do many feel that Senator Clinton is one of them and is able to supplant fearful estrangement?  Within your heart, please answer that one.

He goes onto write, "A decent medium-term outcome in Iraq demands regional diplomacy involving Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran. In the latter, nonproliferation must prevail. It has prevailed in the past — in South Africa, Libya, South America. It must be made to work in Iran. The alternative is an unacceptable Middle Eastern nuclear arms race."

I agree to diplomacy being used as our primary deterrence to warfare, but as you will see, Senator Clinton voted for the Lieberman/Kyl resolution and voted for the war in Iraq.  So, I do not see her as being the candidate Cohen hopes for.  Also, when he stated, "The alternative is an unacceptable Middle Eastern nuclear arms race" I do wonder if he is including Israel.  Why aren’t any in Washington demanding that Israel disarms?  If we truly wish to speak of fear, a nuclear Israel is one that should be feared seeing how they attacked Lebanon last year and recently bombed Syria.

As reported by Newsmax and addressing Syria, they wrote of Senator Clinton, "During a presidential debate on NBC Wednesday night, the Democratic hopeful said: “What we think we know is that with North Korean help, financial and technical and material, the Syrians apparently were putting together, and perhaps over some period of years, a nuclear facility, and the Israelis took it out. I strongly support that.”

It all goes back to this: We are turning a blind-eye when it comes to Israel's nuclear weaponry and Senator Clinton sanctioned the bombing of Syria by Israel for "apparently" putting together a nuclear facility? Also, when she said, "We think we know" and "perhaps" is not something that I want coming from any future president.

Given what we have all lived through during the past seven years, all of us should be demanding verifiable proof that a country poses a threat to our well being.  We should divest ourselves of leaders who relied on allegations of one’s predecessor namely, Bush.  So, when Sen. Clinton uses terms like apparently, perhaps, we think, all of us deserve a president that says, “I know.”

America has lost 3,804 according to the latest casualty rate reported by the DOD (Department of Defense) and the Iraqis have lost over one million citizens.  We cannot have a president that escalates that count and goes beyond Iraq’s borders.

We are deserving of a president who does not apply fear wastefully in which ‘we the people’ can honor this president’s intuitive signals without the denial of them.  That is the leadership we need going forward.  Is there that dynamic leader out there willing to rise to this immense challenge, ‘we the people’ only pray so.

Author’s email address is, xmjmac@optonline.net

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