Palin is an unknown and she seems to be more of a tactical thinker than strategic, though both her and McCain seem to have the will like Bush to fight for the national interest.

The Obama camp has not the ability to properly react to the foreign challenges and even though Obama seems to be a strategic thinker his focus is the domestic and liberal appeasement policies.

What constitutes “strategic” thinking? Has anyone ever navigated white water rapids in a canoe? The strategic goal is to get out alive. It’s all tactics – wave to wave, moment to moment.

Some Democratic speaker/writer (from this site I believe) made the point that barbarians will always be at the gates to badly paraphrase a more elaborate presentation. The recent eruptions in nation-state aggression, surely support the concept that what is old is new again. As I see it, the strategic goal is to remain intact, as a nation state. This in sharp contrast to the multiple trends towards unity of government, law, justice, economics.

A crucial distinction between the ideological platforms of the two candidates in this presidential election.