"Actually, and thankfully, John McCain is the not the president. If he were we’d be involved in something like 16 ground wars right now. But he is using his position as the senator everyone in the press listens to to goad the U.S. into actually getting involved in this war properly. He is doing this because he believes war to be the solution all problems. McCain sees U.S. armed intervention as a magical force that will inevitably bring about the best possible outcome. McCain thinks this because he is a simplistic hawk. In any given foreign conflict, McCain thinks Doing Something is the right action, and Doing Something means an armed response, and the outcome will always necessarily have to be positive. Despite — actually probably because of — this magical thinking, he is treated, still, as an authority and a wise elder statesman by the political press. He is not treated like an old crank obsessed with war and unable to grasp the possible negative effects of conflict"
Posted on: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:59:45 +0000
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