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the-reaction.blogspot.com - 8/16/2008
"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."
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By Michael J.W. Stickings 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 ...

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The Moderate Voice:  McCain: Georgia conflict is the ‘first serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.’ (With Blogger Round Up)

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McCain: Georgia conflict is the ‘first serious crisis internationally since the end of the Cold War.’ (With Blogger Round Up)
The Moderate Voice — ... the ultimate sacrifice, remember that Senator McCain seems to think that your loved one died for something so trivial that it doesn’t even break the “crisis” threshold. Andrew Sullivan asks: What if Obama had said this?…. 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. Michael Stickings writes: [McCain is] providing yet more evidence — and ...

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