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McCain sez that the Russia/Georgia conflict is "the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War. This is an act of aggression." ...
McCain sees Georgian conflict as the ‘first serious crisis’ in post-Cold War era
Political Animal —
Once in a while, the depth of John McCain’s foreign policy confusion stops being funny, and starts getting scary.
For those of you who can’t watch clips online, McCain told an audience at the Aspen Institute yesterday, “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.”
About a month ago, McCain said the war in Iraq is the “first major conflict since 9/11,” which ...
Senile McSame forgets about wars...again
WTF Is It Now?!? —
... Via ThinkProgress.Org with video.
John McCain Has More Odd Things to Say About Russia/Georgia
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... Now he's saying this : 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. I just don't know what is going on in John McCain's brain. The Iraq War is undoubtedly a crisis. It was a crisis for the military, which was underprepared for the fight, lost thousands of young men and women, and is now so spent it cannot address problems elsewhere in the world. It was a crisis here at home, because of how much money it cost the American people ( ...
"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."
The Reaction —
... So said McCain yesterday at the Aspen Institute in Colorado, providing yet more evidence -- and it's really piling up -- that he is not the straight-talking maverick with international relations expertise that some still make him out to be but a dim-witted buffoon who actually knows very little about the world and who is prepared to do and say anything to score political points, including, as in this case, exaggerate and fearmonger to the point where what he says bears absolutely no resemblance to the truth. ...
A Perfect Home
Confederate Yankee —
... , hacking away with the intellectual dishonesty that has given Think Progress the reputation it has so richly earned (but surprisingly, hasn't yet found a way to tax). John McCain deems the Georgia-Russia war the "first serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War"... Satyam notes "the Gulf War, 9/11, and the Iraq War, to name a few" as possible alternatives. But beyond McCains seemingly poor memory, the interesting thing is the confusion in terms of high-level concepts. It was ...
His Grandiosity on Display
Talking Points Memo —
... John McCain says: "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." ...
Crisis? McCain Will Give You Crisis!
Newshoggers.com —
... 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 ...
What If Obama Said This?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
McCain:
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. Not the invasion of Kuwait? Or the first Gulf War? Or the Afghan war? Or the second Iraq war? Or Darfur? Or Bosnia? Or 9/11? It's this kind of emotional hyperbole that should worry people about McCain in the White House. He's a drama queen on these issues. With a finger on the trigger. ...
That Word "Crisis" Does Not Mean What You Think It Means, Senator
Political Animal —
THAT WORD "CRISIS" DOES NOT MEAN WHAT YOU THINK IT MEANS, SENATOR.... Apparently John McCain thinks the Russian invasion of Georgia is "the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War." This is, pretty obviously, factually wrong, since you could trot out the Gulf War, Bosnia, Kosovo, the al-Aqsa Intifada, 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq at a minimum as other serious international crises since the end of the Cold War. But in a way, that doesn't matter. What this demonstrates is McCain's urgent, deep-seated desire to believe that he, John McCain, ...
Irony Is SO Dead
The Mahablog —
... Or perhaps John McCain has entered a temporal anomaly, as often happened to the various Star Trek crews. Yesterday McCain said of the Russian military action in Georgia, ...
Are You Serious?
Shakesville —
John McCain on the crisis in Georgia: 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.So the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in 1990 (and the subsequent Gulf War), the break-up of Yugoslavia and the civil wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the genocides in Rwanda and the Sudan, and I'm sure I'm forgetting something... oh, right, the invasion of Iraq by America in 2003... those were not as serious? This man wants to be president? Of what?
John McCain: The First Serious Crisis
Daily Kos —
Via Think Progress, it seems like John McCain forgot about a crisis or two or three. Given that McCain has been using the situation in Georgia to pretend he's the president (speaking of presumptuous), it's not surprising that he wants to present this as the biggest crisis ever. And he's right, assuming you forget the Gulf War, and Somalia, and the Rwandan Genocide, and the earlier war in Georgia, and the breakup of Yugoslavia and all the wars that spawned, and 9/11, and Afghanistan, and Iraq and ...
Quick Hits Friday
The Great Plains Observer —
... . Are our national forests next on his drilling list? More McCain halfsheimers? - John McCain sees the current Georgia - Russia conflict as the first serious crisis since the end of the cold war. Of course that would not be counting the comments he made about the ...
McCain and the "Last War"
Obsidian Wings —
... . Of all the McCain gaffes, I think yesterday’s is arguably the most significant — and the most troubling. In case you missed it, McCain said: ...
McCain sees Georgian conflict as the ‘first serious crisis’ in post-Cold War era
Crooks and Liars —
Once in a while, the depth of John McCain’s foreign policy confusion stops being funny, and starts getting scary.
About a month ago, McCain said the war in Iraq is the “first major conflict since 9/11,” ...
Friday Night Musings on Georgia
Newshoggers.com —
... Speaking of, John McCain is wrong that this counts as the first serious international crisis, but I would never underestimate the ability of his ideological soulmates in the Bush administration to manage to turn it into one. ...
The world according to McCain: Georgia is "the first, probably, serious crisis internationally since the end of the cold war"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... crises. See foreign policy expert John McCain, who spent the last week pretending he's the president and single-handedly in charge of the situation in Georgia, thinks that situation in Georgia is the first serious international crisis since the Cold War ended. Wow. He's more out of touch than we thought. Again, for Georgia to be the first, serious international crisis, McCain is overlooking, among other things, the fact the United States is currently engaged in two wars. Think Progress posted the video: ...
8/18: Back In The Saddle
Blogometer —
... that recounted by Solzhenitsen, as told in Luke Veronis, 'The Sign of the Cross'. [...] I have one simple question: when was the first time that McCain told this story?" MCCAIN III: Another Foreign Policy Gaffe? Liberal bloggers are accusing McCain of making a major gaffe when he described the Georgia conflict as the "first...serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War": THOUGHT OF THE DAY: No One For VP! ...
Cheney, McCain and The New Cold War
Crooks and Liars —
... For a start, John McCain seems to be just as tone-deaf to his own words as Dick Cheney. Talking about the conflict in Georgia, he told an audience in Aspen back in mid-August: ...
McCain's pain in Spain
Political Animal —
... . Forgetting Zapetero's name is almost forgivable, though hard to explain for a candidate who claims to be an expert in foreign policy. But the interviewer kept using the word " Spain ." She even gave him a big hint with the word " Europe ." Let's also not lose sight of the broader pattern. McCain thinks the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia was "the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War." He thinks Iraq and Pakistan ...
Top Ten McCain Foreign Policy Gaffes
Matthew Yglesias —
... McCain thinks the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia was “the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.” He thinks Iraq and Pakistan ...
Zapatero! (or, where the hell is Spain?)
The Reaction —
... Let's also not lose sight of the broader pattern. McCain thinks the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia was "the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War." He thinks Iraq and Pakistan ...
Colin Powell says Georgia provoked Russian crisis, hints McCain’s response was hasty, reckless
Crooks and Liars —
... On CNN Sunday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell offered some “straight-talk” on the Georgia/Russia conflict, and not-so-subtly insinuated that McCain’s rather belligerent response was careless and unnecessarily provocative. ...
SuperMcCain
Daily Kos —
... And so, during the Russia-Georgia crisis, he clumsily called the situation "the first serious crisis" since the Cold War. At a "flag-bedecked news conference," he announced that he would send his most vocal campaign surrogates to the region, claiming that this was ...
The Consequences Of John McCain
Wonk Room —
... Back before McCain decided that the Russia-Georgia crisis was “the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War,” in 2006 McCain called Iran’s nuclear activities “ ...
Patrick Barry: John McCain's Blundering Week On Foreign Policy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... who, in an op-ed written with fellow former Secretary of State George Shultz, argued: "This drift toward confrontation must be ended. However appropriate as a temporary device for showing our concern, isolating Russia is not a sustainable long-range policy. It is neither feasible nor desirable to isolate a country adjoining Europe, Asia and the Middle East and possessing a stockpile of nuclear weapons comparable to that of the United States." [John McCain, 8/12/08. John McCain, 8/14/08. Sarah Palin, 9/11/08. John McCain, 9/26/08. John McCain, 10/07/08. ...
The War Party Embraces Obama
Antiwar.com Original —
... and Rachel Maddow out of the studio bodily, and shut down the station as long as "damages" were paid? The station, by the way, which was the only televised platform for the Georgian opposition, has since been handed ove r to a regime-friendly front man, who just happens to be an American citizen. Damages were paid, indeed
This is the regime defended by Barack Obama , as Solomon points out, as well as ( unsurprisingly ) John McCain , and that's hardly the only case of bipartisan fealty to a U.S.-supported dictatorship. ...
Eagleburger is so very sorry
Political Animal —
... talking points, Eagleburger said we "can't expect" Palin to be prepared to lead on Day One, but voters shouldn't worry, because she'll learn "quickly" under John McCain's tutelage. (Eagleburger said this would take months.) Hoping to regain credibility in the campaign's eyes, Eagleburger also did his best to sound like a partisan hack, insisting that Barack Obama's remarks on foreign policy over the course of the campaign have been "stupid and contradictory." Um, Lawrence? McCain thinks the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia was "the first probably serious crisis ...
Eagleburger Recants His Anti-Palin Remarks
Comments from Left Field —
... Um, Lawrence? McCain thinks the recent conflict between Russia and Georgia was “the first probably serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.” He thinks Iraq and Pakistan ...
Goldfarb: Can’t Show Weakness In Front Of The Russians!
Wonk Room —
... But while it’s less than surprising that members of McCain’s own staff were deeply impressed by his response to the Russian invasion — bellicosity, after all, qualifies as good policy in conservativeland — I actually think it probably did more in the long run to hurt him by highlighting his tendency to perpetually careen from crisis to crisis, an image that was finally and forever cast in granite when, in a matter of days, he went from ...
