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Both Barack Obama and John McCain want to increase the 33,000-person U.S. military presence, but pacifying a country so large and unruly will require hundreds of thousands of troops that the U.S. doesn't have. And so no less a figure than General David Petraeus has endorsed a wholly different solution: negotiating with the Taliban. "You have to talk to enemies," Petraeus said on Oct. 8. "This is how you end these kinds of conflicts...
That policy would appear to have the support of Obama--who has said that as President, he would meet "with anyone at the time and place of my choosing"--though not of McCain, who cites Petraeus as an ally every day on the campaign trail but whose running mate, Sarah Palin, has called negotiating with rogue regimes "beyond naive...
...Klein's piece on Obama's skills in crisis management shows how blind he is [Oct. 13]. Obama speaks with calmness simply because he doesn't know what to say, while McCain speaks with anger because he has so much to say. McCain is angry at what the Democrats and the Wall Street executives have done to deceive the American people. I pray that the American people will listen to McCain's anger and endorse what he will do as President: freeze spending and cut pork-barrel and other unnecessary spending. These steps are essential for the American people. John...