McCain: I've Been to the Mountaintop

There is a growing suspicion that John McCain is in love with the idea of war. He dreams about it. He can taste it. He seems to long for the days when this whole country was involved in a war economy and living with the threat of being incinerated by a nuclear bomb. His recent rhetoric seeming to stir up memories of harsh words and a suspicious if not cold relationship with the old Soviet Union is outrageously scary, and as the details and facts unravel about this skirmish between Russia and Georgia, it seems that McCain is very and inextricably connected with the Bush-Cheney regime along with Condi Rice, Karl Rove and his own personal envoy, former Georgian lobbyist Randy Scheunemann pulling strings in this conflict well before the rest of us knew anything about it.

So John McCain is looking over that mountaintop, and he sees war, a return to the Cold War, a continuation and perpetuation of the Bush doctrine of threaten first, consider sending in troops second and avoid diplomacy and negotiation at all cost. It reminds him of the good old days when the United States was always right, when the rest of the world was scared and respected a strong leader and we truly had a moral imperative. Well, Mr. McCain, this isn't 1945 or 1968 or even 1981. This is a different world, my friend, and the world and our role in it has drastically changed and become way more complicated.

This is a superb blog to read on the same theme http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/08/14/john-mccain-on-russia-angry-bellicose-belligerent-and-extreme/

There is a lot to say about this subject, but I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that not only is the Bush regime going to be generally continued for another four years if McCain is elected, but this man has no problem with violating any pledge or promise, doing exactly what his latest strategist or advisor tells him to do or say, and he only has a very small portion of this country on his mind, namely big business, big oil, the high-end Republilcan elite and any person or entity who brings a lot of money and influence to the McCain fundraising party.