Why America Needs McCain - Niall Ferguson

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/28/Niall_Ferguson_on_John_McCain_and_Iran

Niall Ferguson argues that John McCain is the only presidential candidate strong enough to keep Iran in check, and the only one willing to make good on military threats should Iran eventually go nuclear.

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The Old Man and the (Blue) Sea: Why America Needs a McCain Presidency with Niall Ferguson.

Ferguson makes a passionate argument why America should be enthusiastic about a John McCain Presidency. The event was part of the Hoover Institution's April 2008 Retreat.

Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University. He is a resident faculty member of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

He is also a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

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[ntn1987]

Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran!

[worthlessdollar1]

"Nobody is ever going to doubt, that John McCain is tough when it comes to fighting radical Islam."

Niall's talking bollocks in quite spectacular fashion.

Does he really believe that starting a THIRD war, giving Al Quieda the propaganda coup of the century, uniting Sunni and Shia against the West, unleashing a tidal wave of Islamic refugees heading for Europe and America, losing the support of moderate muslims and FINISHING America's world standing... is a way of FIGHTING radical Islam?!!

[bozzeed]

macain and obama both suck

[lozoft9]

@Rextrent Oh and of course your not ignorant at all when you commented that "Cain is the only viable REP candidate." So you think that a pizza boy with no political qualifications, other than being lobbyist scum, can be prez? Facts, Watson; just the facts. And of course his only real qualification is that "obama can't pull the race card on him" just like you said. I rest my case.

[Rextrent]

LIberals with pie in the sky for brains. Well-indoctrinated by their "educators". If they are allowed to run things, the US WILL EVENTUALLY be crushed. Say "hello" to my little muslim friend. Can you say "ignorant"?

[lozoft9]

@Rextrent "War is the final diplomatic solution" This was said before we invented the bomb. If we go to war with them, we risk Ahmedinejad getting bold and telling the world that we are murderers. And like fools they'll all believe it. This isn't nazi germany and liberals are no Neville Chamberlain!

[doIsoundlikeicare]

He has no respect for Iranian policy makers. He seems to see them has hollow shadows of humanity only capable of fear, INcapable of indignation or foresight.

Let's imagine that Iranian policy makers are not 1-dimentional fretters only capable of fear: what might they think?

1 INDIGNATION: "This so called president is a man that sang that song? He mocked our entire nation & now expects a deal?"

2 FORESIGHT: "A threat? He'll never bomb us. How'd the West, East, & Islam react? Call his bluff."

[MrGidderz]

A rather dangerous foreign policy

[Rextrent]

@worthlessdollaR WAR IS A VERY NECESSARY THING.LIberals really think they know something but they are destroying America

[WSWarthog]

@FrogmortonHotchkiss

'the Captain Kirk theory of leadership' - ahahaha that's brilliant. Well it worked for Putin, didn't it?

[WSWarthog]

The Iranians aren't going to let themselves be intimidated by anyone. They're driven by justified paranoia, but not so much by fear I believe.