Barack Obama and Joe Biden generally have urged a more cautious approach that emphasizes diplomacy while John McCain famously responded to one question about his Iran policy by singing “Bomb, bomb Iran” to an old Beach Boys tune.
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In essence, McCain follows the belligerent neoconservative line of a forward-leaning approach in the Middle East that would maintain the U.S. presence in Iraq and would reach even farther into the Muslim world, while Obama – though toughening up his rhetoric recently – believes that the United States must pull back from what he views as a military overreach.
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