From the UK Daily Telegraph
John McCain 'would confront Russia and China'
By Alex Spillius in Washington
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A John McCain presidency would take to a more forceful approach to Russia and China, according to senior foreign policy advisers to the Republican candidate.
In a recent foreign policy speech, Mr McCain advocated removing Russia from the G8 group of major industrialised powers, while this week he announced he would not attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics if he were in office because of China's suppression of Tibetan protest.
His experience of foreign affairs is one reason why the 71-year-old Vietnam war veteran has drawn level with both his potential Democratic rivals, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, in opinion polls, suggesting the public may accept his more muscular approach to the world.
Robert Kagan, who wrote much of the speech delivered in Los Angeles, told the Daily Telegraph: "Russia will loom large for both Europe and the US, and John McCain has been ahead of the curve and has seen this coming down the road.
"We have made the mistake of being too passive as Putin has consolidated his autocracy. There have been key moments when he took away power of opposition parties, suppressed the media and arrested key figures, which were greeted with relative silence in the West.
"Because Putin feels he has to maintain the trappings of democracy there are opportunities to be stronger but the West hasn't done that."
The full article can be found here
McCain and Kagan just don't get it. It's American hubris and the whole 'America, fuck yeah!' violent preemptive cowboy bullshit that puts the rest of the world on edge. They think they can 'manage' Russia with standover tactics and by insulting that nation with gestures like the 'removal' their G8 status. Too bad McCagan, Russia is a major industrialised power, you'll just have to wear it.
America needs to chill out, apologise to the world, and withdraw all support from that shitty little terror state. Miracles would happen if the US did that, but alas, it's not on the agenda. Instead, we'll see a continuation of the failed policy of micromanaging the rest of the world with threats, sanctions, death squads and covert activity while hatred continues to blossom worldwide.
America is the bully cop that tells you to calm down and behave while he punches you in the face.
Robert Kagan is one of the most neoconnish neocons in existence. His entire family is neoconservative. When he and his father Donald, brother Fred, and sister Kimberley are in the same room together at the same time, it's a veritable neoconstravaganza. Oy vey!
as bad as they are. People say they're all the same but it sounds like if McCain gets in it's going to be armageddon.
A number of years back, a rap group had a fairly popular song called "Chronic" in which they described the effects of a really bad variety of weed called "Chronic."
One of the lines in the song was "Insane in the Brain", describing how one felt after a toke or two.
Maybe that should be McCain's theme song for his campaign.
He could even hire that rap group to come on stage and sing their song.
That would be a nice counterpoint to all of that Wonder Bread you see on stage wherever McCain sets up his traveling freak show.
Heheh, that was Cypress Hill.