vetvoice.com - 8/15/2008
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McCain is still trying to use the Russian-Georgian conflict to play up his supposed national security credentials. Another day, another illustration of McCain's national security mindset being stuck in the cold war:
"My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first, probably, serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression."
This of course comes on ...
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Crisis? McCain Will Give You Crisis!
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... By Cernig
Yesterday, John McCain told an audience in Colorado: My friends, we have reached a crisis, the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression. Georgia, of course. There's soooo much wrong with that statement, as Kevin Drum, Matt Yglesias and Rock Richard all point out. Matt writes: beyond McCain’s seemingly poor memory, the interesting thing is the confusion in terms of high-level concepts. It was ...
McCain: Georgia conflict is the ‘first serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.’ (With Blogger Round Up)
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... RockRichard at VetVoice says bluntly:
Forget about Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden and REAL Al-Qaeda. That isn’t a major conflict. Let’s not dwell too much on figuring out this Iraq problem. It isn’t an international crisis. And maybe he was just having a “senior moment” and completely forgot about the Gulf War, apartheid, and genocide in Darfur, Rwanda and the Balkans.
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