McCain’s dangerous backward foreign policy - a return to the Cold War
McCain apparently wants to start a new Cold War with Russia and China, undoing decades of diplomacy. His idea of kicking Russia out, and excluding China from the G8 group of industrialized nations (that comprise the majority of the world’s production and industry), was called by Newsweek: “the most radical idea put forward by a major candidate for the presidency in 25 years.”
So, McCain’s vision includes increased tension with China, a country whose economy is growing at triple the rate of the US and is poised to overtake the US in superpower status, and Russia, one of the largest producers of oil and home to the majority of unaccounted for nuclear weapons. Now… that’ll keep safe, don’t ya think? More of the same arrogant bullshit isolationist antagonist foreign policy. Is that what we need?
Newsweek:
What McCain has announced is momentous—that the United States should adopt a policy of active exclusion and hostility toward two major global powers. It would reverse a decades-old bipartisan American policy of integrating these two countries into the global order, a policy that began under Richard Nixon (with Beijing) and continued under Ronald Reagan (with Moscow). It is a policy that would alienate many countries in Europe and Asia who would see it as an attempt by Washington to begin a new cold war.
The single most important security problem that the United States faces is securing loose nuclear materials. A terrorist group can pose an existential threat to the global order only by getting hold of such material. We also have an interest in stopping proliferation, particularly by rogue regimes like Iran and North Korea. To achieve both of these core objectives—which would make American safe and the world more secure—we need Russian cooperation.
John McCain doesn’t have to worry much about the future… in his 70’s, he doesn’t have much time left. Yes, vote for McSame - the same neo-con isolationist heavy handed cowboy diplomacy that has put America in it’s present situation. Vote for McSame to return to international tension, more war, more hard times and an infinitely more dangerous world.
“We get off on war”
- Rod Parsley, John McCain’s spiritual advisor
What we need to do is come to grips with the fact that the world is changing, the power is shifting, and that we should embrace that phenomenon rather than fight it. We need to bring countries like Russia and China into this global system. As China continues to grow strong, if we further alienate them, it will hurt America. Instead of jealously guarding our spot as ‘the world’s foremost superpower,’ we need to think more about common goals, and what’s going to create greater stability, not more tension.
Couple of thoughts:
1) We won the cold war.
2) China’s acting like the USSR circa 1970.
3) Putin is running Russia like the good ol’ USSR.
4) So if they’re returning to their old ways, why not return to the old way that worked in defeating them?
Oh, that’s right. Talk, talk and appease.
To answer #4, for one thing, its no longer 1970.
At this point the G8 could easily laugh McCain out of the room, and kick us out instead.
Your new home is calling.
I love France but in case you haven’t noticed, the dollar is weaker now in Europe than any point in my life. Wake up - that should give you a clue. Look beyond your holler. America isn’t what it used to be.
HB Keats said:
So, using that same logic, if an infection is successfully treated by penicillin, we should not use it, because penicillin is so 1920.
There’s an old expression, HB. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Actually, it would be a mistake to assume that penicillin results would not change over time, not because it is “so 1920”, but because groups of organisms change with passage of time, mainly as a result of natural selection, so that descendants differ morphologically and physiologically from their ancestors; the larger point being that it is important to base policy on critical evaluation of the evidence, not bogus assumptions like “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Oh, HB. It seems your ability to read is broken.
I said:
not that the bacterial strain is resistant to bacteria, so use Cipro.
You miss the point and instead try to derail the conversation by discussing the nature of antibiotics, which was not the point of discussion.
So far, all we hear from Clinton/Obama is “sit down and chat with Party X”, which has an historical record of being notoriously stupid. It would be the point of treating an ulcer with a bandaid over the stomach, and repeatedly adding bandaids until the ulcer ruptures, at which point major invasive surgery has to occur.
Foreign policy is a very tricky field, and William and company have been quick to criticize McCain, where it seems Obama/Clinton have a far worse policy towards global interaction.
Captain Brainstorm,
I can read. When you say “successfully treated”, you are implying that because some solutions from the 1920s may still work today, other solutions (to a completely unrelated issue!) from the 1970s must also be applicable. I was simply using your own analogy to point out the flaw in your reasoning.
So far, all we hear from Clinton/Obama is “sit down and chat with Party X”, which has an historical record of being notoriously stupid.
Stupid to talk with the enemy? Like Reagan did with the USSR?.