Thursday, 30 October 2008


Thursday, 30th October 2008

This fateful election

3:28pm


A must-read column by Walid Phares says the overriding issue in the US presidential election is national survival. Carefully and fairly analysing the differences between Obama and McCain, he concludes that the candidate who will best give America the best chance of surviving is McCain. Beyond his analysis of the candidates’ differences, Phares makes the chilling and all-too obvious observation thatneither candidate has shown he grasps the full dimensions of the threat to its national survival -- and the survival of the free world – that America currently faces from the global jihad and the economic meltdown -- which he connects -- and which makes this election such a fateful one. Phares writes:

The flames of the urban uprisings in France, of the train bombings in Madrid, of the subway blasts in London and the school massacre
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