In a video posted over at Think Progress, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer tells Fox News that John McCain's talk about being more cooperative with foreign governments is really all about a "hidden agenda" to make the United Nations irrelevant. Does that really qualify as a conspiracy theory, or simply an assumed truth? After all, the U.N. has stood against most U.S. military ventures in recent times under both Democratic and Republican administrations, with the notable exceptions being the war in Afghanistan and the first Gulf War. Combine that with the diminished authority of NATO since the end of the Cold War and it makes sense for a candidate like McCain, who is not opposed to military interventionism to propose the creation of a league of democracies. The U.N.derlying Message
In a video posted over at Think Progress, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer tells Fox News that John McCain's talk about being more cooperative with foreign governments is really all about a "hidden agenda" to make the United Nations irrelevant. Does that really qualify as a conspiracy theory, or simply an assumed truth? After all, the U.N. has stood against most U.S. military ventures in recent times under both Democratic and Republican administrations, with the notable exceptions being the war in Afghanistan and the first Gulf War. Combine that with the diminished authority of NATO since the end of the Cold War and it makes sense for a candidate like McCain, who is not opposed to military interventionism to propose the creation of a league of democracies.
Not surprisingly, Michael Goldfard and his Weekly Standard colleagues like McCain's foreign policy ideas and note a de facto endorsement from Gary Kasparov to boot.
Meanwhile, Kevin Drum mocks McCain's latest foreign policy speech. Clearly, Drum doesn't take McCain's words as sincere. And while McCain certainly sends more hawkish signals in most of his speeches, I think it's important here to accept that you'd be hard pressed to find any veteran of military conflict, hawk or dove, who would recklessly place the lives of American military personnel in danger. McCain may be digging in his heels on Iraq, but that does not necessarily imply he would be quick to wage another war of choice. Nonetheless, Drum says:
Meanwhile, Kevin Drum mocks McCain's latest foreign policy speech. Clearly, Drum doesn't take McCain's words as sincere. And while McCain certainly sends more hawkish signals in most of his speeches, I think it's important here to accept that you'd be hard pressed to find any veteran of military conflict, hawk or dove, who would recklessly place the lives of American military personnel in danger. McCain may be digging in his heels on Iraq, but that does not necessarily imply he would be quick to wage another war of choice. Nonetheless, Drum says:
[J]ust got around to reading John McCain's big foreign policy address from yesterday, and all I can say is: Wow. Aside from wanting to stay in Iraq essentially forever, he's basically trying to pass himself off as a guy who'd just as soon disband the military as ever launch another cruise missile:
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