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huffingtonpost.com - 8/21/2008
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If last week's Georgia crisis showed anything, it is that John McCain should not be president. There is a Cabinet post for which he is well-qualified: that's Secretary of War. Too bad it's been abolished.
Seriously, look at McCain's reaction to the crisis in the Caucasus. It was crystal clear. "We are all Georgians," he declared in the Wall Street Journal . He was proposing a ...
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Jamie Rubin makes some important points about John McCain's knee-jerk bellicosity. In the case of Georgia, my guess is that McCain was overwhelmed by personal feelings since he had befriended the young Georgian President over the years. Such passion is great for political campaigns--see my column below--but it's not a great way to make foreign policy.
I'm told there was some debate within the Obama campaign about whether to separate from McCain on Georgia--whether to make the argument: What Russia did was atrocious, but McCain wants to send your kids off to die in yet ...
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