Tuesday, July 1, 2008
McCain camp using same old tactics
The neocon McCain foreign policy team could not resist the temptation to link their irresponsible, anti-constitutional, overreaching approach to dealing with terrorists with a post-9/11 world. Granted, the tragic events changed America's FP outlook in numerous ways, but it's sad to see, in former CIA counterterror chief Richard Clarke's words, "the McCain campaign using the same old, tired tactics." Clarke continued: "To say [Obama] is weak on terrorism strikes me as just another example of the sort of Karl Rove strategy of taking what the truth is and doing the opposite."
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Let's try to avoid going name-calling as the Karl Rove types do... to describe McCain as neocon is debatable, and to call McCain's policy irresponsible and unconstitutional might be accurate in the opinion of the writer as well as my own opinion, but I feel that to use such words in describing McCain's policy lowers us to the same kind of name-calling that comes from the old style politics we are trying to get away from. Let's focus on the substance rather than laying on broad negative adjectives.
Agreed, but mostly for reasons of elevating debate.
Neocon refers to a specific mentality that inherits the Leninist view of force as an appropriate tool to change the makeup of societies. Yes, it applies it to conservative goals, but its genealogy is socialist-authoritarian.
Not clear at all that McCain shares that view, since he seems more like an average American hawk to me.
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