US presidential candidate John McCain says the success of Hamas and Hezbollah would put US interests in the region in danger. In an interview with the Jerusalem Post published on Wednesday, McCain said Hamas; the Islamist movement that runs the Gaza Strip, and Lebanon's Hezbollah, both threaten the interests of the United States and the West in general.
The Republican candidate, who has promised more wars in the future, has claimed that both Hamas and Hezbollah are dedicated to the elimination of the US, Israel and the West. "If Hamas or Hezbollah succeeds here, they are going to succeed everywhere, not only in the Middle East, but everywhere," he added. "So America does have an interest in what happens here, far above and beyond our alliance with Israel," the Republican presidential nominee said. McCain also voiced support for Israel's military incursion into the Gaza Strip. |