Posted on 11/03/2017 11:41:30 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Arizona Sen. John McCain took another swipe at Trump administration policy in a speech to the U.S. Naval Academy, where he slammed both isolationism and nationalism, ideas he said are ascendant within the President Trump’s White House.
In the speech to the midshipmen in Annapolis, Maryland, on Monday, the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman ripped into the Trump administration’s policies, although — taking a Voldemort-like approach that’s become habitual among anti-Trump conservatives — he never mentioned the president’s name.
McCain contrasted the “hopeful atmosphere of 1991” after the fall of the Soviet Union with “the current circumstances of our world,” according to USNI News.
“We have gone from an interval when the global success of democracy seemed assured to a time in which the seductions of authoritarian rule find favor with many; when self-interested leadership excuses naked aggression with weak rationalizations; when ethnic grievances haunt the old and religious fanaticism fires the minds of the misguided young,” McCain said.
“We are asleep to the necessity of our leadership, and to the opportunities and real dangers of this world,” he continued.
“We are asleep in our echo chambers, where our views are always affirmed and information that contradicts them is always fake. We are asleep in our polarized politics, which exaggerates our differences, looks for scapegoats instead of answers.”
McCain then went on to attack attributes (isolationism, protectionism) and straw men (conspiracy theories, propaganda) commonly associated with the Trump administration.
“I believe in Americans. We’re capable of better. I’ve seen it,” the Arizona senator said.
“We’re hopeful, compassionate people. And we still have leaders who will uphold the values that made America great, and a beacon to the oppressed.
“But I don’t take that for granted. We have to fight. We have to fight against propaganda and crackpot conspiracy theories. We have to fight isolationism, protectionism, and nativism.”
In a part of his speech where he contrasted the values of post-World War II statesmen with the current administration, he refused to mention the latter by name — although he did take aim at one of its most identifiable slogans.
McCain said that the statesmen had come to the conclusion “that the American example and American leadership are indispensable to securing a peaceful and prosperous future. Our failure to remain engaged in Europe and enforce the hard-won peace of 1918 had made that clear. There could be no more isolationism, no more tired resignation — no more ‘America First.’”
McCain, of course, is equating — possibly deliberately and dishonestly — Trump’s “America First” with the America First Committee, a WWII-era anti-war, isolationist group. This group, led by Sears Roebuck executive Robert E. Wood and aviation hero Charles Lindbergh, vociferously opposed entry into the war against Hitler’s Germany that were not always admirable or moral.
The comparisons between a slogan meant to emphasize what many conservatives feel was the Obama administration’s excessive accommodation to internationalism and globalism with a discredited movement that sought to stay out of an active war between fascist, racist, genocidal powers is, one would hope, nothing more than rhetoric.
Judging by McCain’s recent history with the Trump administration — he’s killed the Republican bill to replace Obamacare and intimated he found the Obama administration more up to his liking, for instance — one is not inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
John McCain has served our country and the Republican Party well. We wish him the best in his fight against cancer. However, I’m getting a bit sick of having to append those caveats onto the end of every single story involving something the Arizona lawmaker has done to blight the conservative cause or blunt the edge of the Trump agenda.
Let’s face facts: McCain has become an incorrigible RINO, wholly determined to act as a roadblock to his party’s efforts to undo the damage of the Obama era. Part of this seems to involve smearing the president at every opportunity possible.
If John McCain really wants to do something great for America, we have a simple suggestion for him: Retirement.
So
..he announced he IS a TRAITOR, officially.
McCain seems to miss that if we don’t start taking care of our own interests we will soon find ourselves unable to project power on the world stage. We can only be a force for good when we are the economic, technology and military leaders of the world. We cannot continue to support our debt and spending at the anemic economic growth rates of the last decade. We cannot be a technology leader when our schools fail to provide a strong STEM education and companies are compelled by want of capable employees and excess of taxes and regulation to move operations to more favorable markets abroad. We cannot have the largest most powerful military built on deficits, imported technology and a massive welfare state encouraging sloth over hard work. McCain’s style of leadership has left the ship of state rotting under our feet, a hollow shell preparing to collapse in on itself to the good of no one.
This country exists first and foremost for the good of its people. Take care of their needs, shore up the things that have made America the envy of the world and our power to do good in the world will continue unrivaled for another 70 years. Take McCain’s approach and the US will be broken, unrecognizable, and incapable of taking care of itself much less the world within the next 20 years.
So the class dunce retums to the USNA to attack the CinC
Nice, John
Btw, how were we supposed to “ enforce” the godawful Treaty of Versailles?
Like that would have stabilized Europe..
...no more ‘America First.’”
The real John McCain comes shining through.
All —was there video of the speech? Wonder what the reaction from the crowd was to what he was putting out.....
George Soros funds McCain Institute
http://canadafreepress.com/article/george-soros-funds-mccain-institute
No more McCain First.
Just the mad ramblings of an old guy suffering from brain cancer.
Just the mad ramblings of an old guy suffering from brain cancer.
If you were a Cadet, would you sit through this BS Freepers? I don’t know, I might have a high end class like physics or calculus that needed some studying...
The Manchurian Senator.
Does this idiot really believe this, or is he just tossing grenades?
"My friends, remember when I wanted us to get in bed with ISIS? Remember all those unwinnable wars I wanted us to get into? Just think how many of you and your shipmates could end up dead in more pointless wars due to my 'World Police' desires?"
I understand that the Glioblastoma form of brain cancer is particularly degrading. I understand that it causes constant headaches, seizures, nonstop vomiting, and you lose control of your bladder and bowels.
I sleep like a baby, knowing what McCain faces.
If there was a pay-per-view channel, I'd subscribe.
John McCain has served our country and the Republican Party well.
LIAR!
We wish him the best in his fight against cancer.
LIAR!
All the military academies are too busy studying communism, relativism, diversity, sex perversion, and the beauty of Sharia to worry about defending the U.S. first...
They all need to flushed completely and reestablished by Americans.
McCain has degenerated into what people have called him: McInsane. He was a nut job before he got brain cancer. In his case, he is a true Swamp Creature and, to understand him, all you need to do is follow the money.
McCain is a dunce
What's the difference between anti-American teachers and professors brainwashing students at ElHi's and universities across the fruited plain, and the purposeful hate-America John McCain brainwashing student midshipmen at our U.S. Naval Academy ???
And our taxpayers' dollars are funding all these propaganda platforms for them !
"A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor.....he rots the soul of a nation.....he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist."
Leni
Clearly, that 30-year tumor has metastasized...
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