Next U.S. President Worse Than Last?

Think The World Will Be Safer When George Bush Leaves The White House? Think Again.

Courtesy Of: CNW Group
By Jacqueline Segal,
TORONTO, Nov. 1, 2007
NewsWire

They Call it "AB" - "After Bush."

That is the highly anticipated period beginning on Jan. 20, 2009, in which a newly sworn-in American president, chastened by the troubles in Iraq and by the scorn of allies who say the Bush White House flouted international law, will turn his or her back on the militaristic and unilateralist ways of the preceding seven years, contritely embrace multilateral institutions and
international treaties, bring home U.S. troops, and perhaps even rename the "war on terror" as something other than a "war."

"However, to the great surprise of many Americans," Maclean's Washington correspondent Luiza Savage reports, "the leading presidential candidates are talking just as tough as the current occupant of the White House - and some even tougher."

The candidates who have risen to the top in the presidential race happen to be the biggest hawks in each party.

Both former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who leads the Republican field nationally, and New York Senator Hillary Clinton, who dominates the Democratic primary contest, have a vision of muscular American diplomacy, are actively raising the stakes in the confrontation with Iran, surround themselves with advisers who believe that unilateral American military might can be right, and have no intention of allowing the United Nations or some judge sitting in The Hague to tell them otherwise.

Even Obama has made it clear he would keep every option on the table.

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