Listen to the Podcast Here: McCain Foreign Policy
The text of McCain’s speech today to Veteran’s is here.
Text of Obama’s speech in Berlin.
Addendum: It’s even worse than I what said on the “a” versus “the” world comment. Obama came to the notion of a/the world united by quoting the MAYOR OF BERLIN DURING THE AIRLIFT: “People of the World now do you duty.” Geez, McCain is awful.
A defiant Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said the former Soviet republic would not relinquish South Ossetia or Abkhazia _ both now overrun with Russian troops and abandoned by Georgian soldiers _ as Western leaders pushed for a swift Russian withdrawal from positions it has held for days of warfare.
Saak has become the Peter Lorrie of World Politics (even kinda looks like him). Talking smack he can’t back up, starting some violence, then playing “somebody help me, somebody hide me”, wanting Humphrey Bogart (The US) to come to get his back but it ain’t happening.
James Poulos has got your coverage of the Georgia-Russia/Ossetia War. [I don't know what the official title is going to be].
On Update VII, JP writes of Obama’s statement regarding the issue:
That puts him closer to the Bush administration line — that is, the line of restraint and evenhandedness — than McCain!
Further proof of my reverse Sidney Poitier theory of US prez foreign politics. Bush is moving to a quasi/de facto support of Obama’s view on Iraq, Iran, (Pakistan?) and Afghanistan, so why not on this one? McCain has consistently shown himself more hawkish than the somewhat chastened Bush of ’07 and ’08. And McCain’s long held crazy opposition/desire to saber rattle with Russia is well known.
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