McCain’s foreign policy judgment is questionable
Cato Institute
by Ted Galen Carpenter and Malou Innocent
08/20/08
A major theme of John McCain’s campaign is that he has far more experience in foreign affairs than does Barack Obama. McCain has now escalated his attacks by targeting Obama’s judgment as well — especially the latter’s pessimism about the effectiveness of the surge in Iraq. There is little doubt about McCain’s lengthier foreign policy experience. But it is not at all apparent that his judgment is superior to Obama’s. Indeed, the record indicates that McCain’s own judgment is alarmingly bad...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9595
McCain’s warped worldview
The Nation
by Robert Scheer
08/20/08
The world according to John McCain is one in which America is triumphant at home and abroad thanks to the Bush legacy, rolling to victory internationally and mastering its domestic economic problems. If daily news, like reports of the ten French soldiers killed by a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan and the US government’s imminent nationalization of much of the American mortgage-lending industry, would seem to deny such a rosy scenario, then that only shows skeptics lack the courage that sustained McCain as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. There you have it encapsulated, the McCain campaign for President, an irrational mélange of patriotic swagger and blindness to reality that is proving disturbingly successful with uninformed voters...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080901/scheer
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreign+policy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ted+Galen+Carpenter
by Ted Galen Carpenter and Malou Innocent
08/20/08
A major theme of John McCain’s campaign is that he has far more experience in foreign affairs than does Barack Obama. McCain has now escalated his attacks by targeting Obama’s judgment as well — especially the latter’s pessimism about the effectiveness of the surge in Iraq. There is little doubt about McCain’s lengthier foreign policy experience. But it is not at all apparent that his judgment is superior to Obama’s. Indeed, the record indicates that McCain’s own judgment is alarmingly bad...
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9595
McCain’s warped worldview
The Nation
by Robert Scheer
08/20/08
The world according to John McCain is one in which America is triumphant at home and abroad thanks to the Bush legacy, rolling to victory internationally and mastering its domestic economic problems. If daily news, like reports of the ten French soldiers killed by a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan and the US government’s imminent nationalization of much of the American mortgage-lending industry, would seem to deny such a rosy scenario, then that only shows skeptics lack the courage that sustained McCain as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. There you have it encapsulated, the McCain campaign for President, an irrational mélange of patriotic swagger and blindness to reality that is proving disturbingly successful with uninformed voters...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080901/scheer
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=foreign+policy
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Robert+Scheer
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ted+Galen+Carpenter
rudkla - 21. Aug, 11:39
