As a response to the presidential election between Obama and McCain, we as a club illustrated the stark similarities between the two candidates. As a result, the club distributed one of our best Liberty Reports – “McCain = Obama”. Within that issue along with many other items, we discovered that Obama is just as much as a war promoter as his counterpart. As the media and the rest of America are becoming increasingly occupied by homeland issues, a new war in Pakistan appears to be brewing. America is using military action to bomb probable targets which are believed to be Taliban militants. Unfortunately, reports are coming in claiming that many innocent civilians are also being destroyed. Is there a quicker way to create an organized resistance against the United States in Pakistan than by invigorating more recruits to avenge the deaths of lost innocent loved ones? Possibly, but it is saddening to see an elected official who ran under the principles of peace to be pursuing more aggressive military action.

How is this making us safer again? How are we paying for this again? What in the Constitution permits us to send foreign aid and troops to countries such as this again? And most importantly, in the spirit of our last meeting, what justifies the killing of innocent people again?

Globally, the United States has degraded al Qaeda's ability to pull off another 9/11 by employing operations that look a lot like police detective work. Most of the greatest successes scored against al Qaeda, such as the snatch-and-grab operations that netted Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Ramzi bin al Shibh, have not relied on large numbers of U.S. troops. Intelligence sharing and close cooperation with foreign law enforcement and intelligence agencies have done more to round up suspected terrorists than blunt military force.
- Obama's Wise Approach toward Afghanistan