McCain’s foreign-policy incoherence becomes slightly more embarrassing
Posted May 3rd, 2008
from The Carpetbagger Report
John McCain’s vision of the Middle East is contradictory and incoherent, but let’s also not lose sight of his bizarre approach to Russia.
About a month ago, in his most detailed address on foreign policy of the campaign, McCain stated his intention to kick Russia out of the G-8. In rather belligerent tones, reminiscent of the Cold War, McCain said he would not tolerate “Russia’s nuclear blackmail or cyber attacks,” and suggested Russia is not a democracy “committed to the defense of freedom.”
International observers and foreign policy experts haven’t the foggiest idea what McCain is thinking.
John McCain dropped a little-noticed bombshell into his March foreign-policy address: Boot Russia from the G-8, the elite club of leading industrial democracies whose leaders try to coordinate economic policies.
One major problem: He can’t do it because the other G-8 nations won’t let him.
(Continued here.)
from The Carpetbagger Report
John McCain’s vision of the Middle East is contradictory and incoherent, but let’s also not lose sight of his bizarre approach to Russia.
About a month ago, in his most detailed address on foreign policy of the campaign, McCain stated his intention to kick Russia out of the G-8. In rather belligerent tones, reminiscent of the Cold War, McCain said he would not tolerate “Russia’s nuclear blackmail or cyber attacks,” and suggested Russia is not a democracy “committed to the defense of freedom.”
International observers and foreign policy experts haven’t the foggiest idea what McCain is thinking.
John McCain dropped a little-noticed bombshell into his March foreign-policy address: Boot Russia from the G-8, the elite club of leading industrial democracies whose leaders try to coordinate economic policies.
One major problem: He can’t do it because the other G-8 nations won’t let him.
(Continued here.)
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