How Dangerous Are McCain's Foreign Policy Proposals?
Friday, April 11, 2008
So dangerous that even Henry Kissinger is worried. From The New York Times:
WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain has long made his decades of experience in foreign policy and national security the centerpiece of his political identity, and suggests he would bring to the White House a fully formed view of the world.
But now one component of the fractious Republican Party foreign policy establishment — the so-called pragmatists, some of whom have come to view the Iraq war or its execution as a mistake — is expressing concern that Mr. McCain might be coming under increased influence from a competing camp, the neoconservatives, whose thinking dominated President Bush’s first term and played a pivotal role in building the case for war.
When Kissinger gets called a moderate pragmatist you know the world has turned upside down.