THE ISSUE: Sen. Obama’s willingness to invade Pakistan, an American ally.
Why is everyone so surprised that Sen. Barack Obama says silly things on foreign policy (“Obama: I’d Invade Ally,” Aug. 2)?
He’s a first-term senator with absolutely no foreign-policy experience. And, if we are honest, we know he would not be a candidate for president if he were not a novelty.
Eva Gold
New Brunswick, N.J.
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Obama could very well be an excellent choice for president if we voted solely on urban issues, but unfortunately foreign policy is equally important. His total lack of knowledge in this area will, surely, deny him his goal.
He has no clue about the terrorists’ mentality and their obvious intention to destroy the Western world. To rapidly withdraw from Iraq, invade Pakistan and sit down with the leaders of all the rogue nations is a ticket for disaster.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton should thank him for making her the clear front-runner of the Democratic Party.
Joe DePascale
Brooklyn
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Whether or not I agree with Obama, which on balance I don’t, I find The Post’s logic in attacking him flawed.
Couldn’t all the points on the fake Post-It, which were adorably misspelled to connote childishness, be applied to the 2003 logic of the Iraq invasion?
The argument is the same, except that Pakistan does have weapons of mass destruction, and it has enabled safe bases of operation for al Qaeda.
I wish the selective memory of The Post could be attributed to something as benign as ADD or poor memory, but it seems like it is a much more active, insidious and cynical need to promote any policy of your interests and defame any policy that contradicts those loyalties.
Mark McCarthy
Brooklyn
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How can we view Obama as a serious candidate? He wants to cut and run in Iraq, sit and talk with the world’s worst tyrants and invade Pakistan.
Consider his latest foot-in-mouth statement: “If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.”
He would abandon Iraq, where we are making progress against terrorists, allowing it to be overrun by the enemy, lose the support of the Iraqi people, allow the slaughter of tens of thousands of Iraqis, bring the troops home and then redeploy them to Pakistan.
What a coincidence – my 3-year-old grandson, who also has no military experience, came up with the same strategy.
Elio Valenti
Brooklyn
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So much for the lofty aspirations of flash-in-the-pan presidential wannabe Obama.
Any chance that this smooth-talking charlatan may have had to win our country’s top office went out the window with his second amateurish goof in two weeks – the first being his eagerness to meet with sworn enemies of the United States without preconditions.
With leaders such as this guiding our ship of state, what would our future hold in store?
At least now we know he’ll return to his position of carping from the Senate sidelines, where he can continue to do little harm.
Emil Maricondo
Brooklyn
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Obama has shown again why he does not yet possess the experience necessary to be president.
His latest comment proves just this, and it comes from a man who thought invading Iraq was wrong.
I can only wonder if his whole campaign wasn’t just part of the giant plan by Clinton to ensure that she receive the Democratic Party nomination.
Didn’t something similar happen in 2003 with Howard Dean?
With Obama out of the way, his supporters will flock to Clinton, bringing with them all that money.
Bret Wallach
Hicksville
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We heard the same arguments when President Bush invaded Iraq: Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, it is a sovereign nation and it will attack America.
These pundits got it wrong in Iraq, and they are wrong in Pakistan. Iraq is not the central front in the War on Terror, Afghanistan and Pakistan are.
Obama is right on. When we needed President Musharraf, he pulled a Bush and outsourced the job to tribal leaders who did nothing.
If Osama bin Laden will stay in Pakistan, then, by all means, Obama, go get him and leave all the Republican pundits home scared out of their wits.
After 9/11 we are taking the fight to them. Isn’t that right, Bush?
Kevin A. Dunn
The Bronx
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Obama actually thinks we can just leave Iraq and invade Pakistan? What does he intend on doing, bombing them with copies of his book, “Audacity of Being Ignorant”?
This is the same dolt who would sit around the campfire singing “Kumbaya” with dictators, yet he was too afraid to stand in front of Fox News for a debate because Brit Hume wouldn’t smirk, coddle or sit in awe of his presence, the way Chris Matthews did.
John Yerkovich
Monroe Township, N.J.
