Ellen Goodman thinks McCain is stuck on Vietnam. While I think she has a good point, I think he's just stuck in an overall Cold War state of mind. He is constantly agitating towards Russia, even suggesting we kick them out of the G8, as if the Bush administration hasn't done enough of that by placing a missile defense system on their doorstep. This hasn't produced the best results - Russia recently declared its right to strike preemptively, Russian planes are making more regular and provocative flights near US ships, and there are rumors that Russia is going to start basing nuclear bombers in Cuba again. In addition to all that, the so-called foreign policy expert has shown that he might not really be as on top of things in the Middle East as he'd like us to think he is. For example, he completely botched the timeline of the Sunni Awakening and the Surge (after he'd already shown us that he doesn't know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites). He also seems to have forgotten his geography - he stated that there was an "Iraq-Pakistan border" in an interview recently (possibly a Freudian slip illustrating his plans to erase Iran?). And finally, he has shown disdain for the troops by opposing Senator Webb's GI Bill and advocating unequal and inadequate care for veterans depending on where they served.
McCain says he would only ever consider reinstating slavery in the case of World War III. You be the judge as to whether he might just be crazy enough (or senile enough) to start it.
UPDATE: Charley Reese has a good article on LRC today about McCain being unfit to be President. Lew posts this addendum from the blog as well.
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The Cold War was a damned sight better than the hot war we got when we had fascists on both sides of the superpowers in the 30s. I think I'll go with the cold warrior rather than the guy who can fix our souls if we just turn everything over to the state. (With the state being Him, of course.)
Touché. But I think his temper and his overall belligerence make it almost guaranteed that relations will all other countries will be hot once he's in office. And as we all know, war is the health of the state. So you could end up having to surrender it all anyway.
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