Having lost the 2008 Presidential Election to Barack Obama, John McCain is free to go back to being the Republican Democrats Love Best, this time by reprising the reflexive tic which renders him incapable of thinking clearly about any use of American military force. John McCain hasn't seen an intervention he doesn't like, and his ruminations about whether or not Ronald Reagan would recognize today's Republican Party's growing selectivity about using American power strike me as equally as meaningful as Archie Bunker's yearning for Herbert Hoover (sorry for that one, kids).
We are not the military, economic, and diplomatic Colossus we once were, and the growing sense within the GOP that we should be more restrained in our military and foreign policy adventurism is a positive reaction to the plain truth of our circumstances. We need a period of renewal, a period in which we hunker down and concentrate on those things that will enable our greatness for another century. McCain and others seem to want to have us spend our time dissipating national energy and treasure on sideshows abroad. No thanks. I'm with the GOP candidates McCain criticizes.
Monday, June 20, 2011
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Well said.
I can't help thinking that at least Part of McCain's decision to criticize the GOP field is because it, as well as calls to draw down troop levels in Afghanistan, is being led by Mitt Romney. I don't think McCain has ever liked Romney, and is now taking the opportunity to remind people "I disagree with what he said, and he needs to change his rhetoric before people start thinking he's more relevant than I am."
Of course, that's just a theory.
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