Wednesday, March 26, 2008
The Consequences of a McCain Presidency
Professor at King's College, Cambridge and senior fellow at the New America Foundation Anatol Lieven, in a Financial Times oped, warns that a John McCain presidency might make Americans look back nostalgically for the Bush Administration. Lieven writing from a European perspective argues, "The problem Mr. McCain poses stems from his ideology, his policies and above all his personality." Ideologically, writes Lieven, McCain is firmly in the camp of the neo-conservatives. He points to a 1999 speech of McCain's: "The US is the indispensable nation because we have proven to be the greatest force for good in the world . . . We have every intention of continuing to use our primacy in world affairs for humanity's benefit."
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Glenzilla today:
On Wednesday, John McCain delivered what was billed as a "major foreign policy" speech and today, David Brooks gushed that it was "as personal, nuanced and ambitious a speech as any made by a presidential candidate this year." In particular, Brooks said that the speech demonstrates just how different McCain's foreign policy approach is from that of Bush/Cheney: "Anybody who thinks McCain is merely continuing the Bush agenda is not paying attention."
The reality is exactly the opposite. read more
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