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Romney condemns Russia’s ‘willingness to act militarily agai
thinkprogress.org — Romney joins the list of conservatives who have criticized Russia ’s actions, despite the Bush administration’s belligerent foreign policy. Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) declared that “in the 21st century, nations don’t invade other nations.” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday that military power is “not the way to deal in the 2
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- tcbishop12, on 08/21/2008, -0/+1This is something that transcends whatever immediate campaign tactics or even strategy Barack Obama may be pursuing. It goes beyond him. It goes beyond the Democrats. The whole country needs to wake up.
The foreign policy of the last seven-plus years has been an unmitigated disaster for the United States by virtually every measure. And John McCain would ramp up all the worst traits of the current administration. His instincts are always toward force and the people advising him come squarely from the Cheney wing of the current administration. In comparison to Bush he's not just more of the same. There's every reason to believe he'd be much worse.
The situation in Georgia and McCain's bellicose response should make clear to everyone how dangerous a president John McCain would be. We simply cannot risk an escalation of the same reckless, belligerent, argument-losing, ideological and deceptive foreign policy of the current crew. From his knee-jerk Cold War posture over Georgia to his Rovian campaign tactics, McCain is a belligerent man when it comes to the use of force and is simply too close to the nuclear codes to contemplate.
McCain's trigger-happy temperament, shallow understanding of the complexities and passion for military force as the answer to everything is the bigger risk. He is a recipe for more, wider and far more destructive warfare. The choice this fall is crystal clear: If you want the to reawaken the prospect of the nuclear holocaust of World War III and the end of humanity, then elect the angry senile unstable mad mad bomber, John Sidney McCain III.
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